Turnpike Troubadours – 1968 (Ukulele)

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Chords

One, Two, Three (start with notes G -> A -> B) C D G D Em C D G VERSE
              C                     D
There ain't a thing in the world to take me back

       G           D         Em
Like a dark-haired girl in a Cadillac

    C                D             G
On main street of an old forgotten town

    C                   D
The sun light shines in fine white lines

   G                D         Em       C
On weathered stores with open signs

            D                   G
They may as well just close 'em down
CHORUS
        C           G     D        G
And you look like 1968 or was it '69

       C                  G
When I heard you caught a bullet

       D
Well I guess you're doing fine

        C            G
And you speak of revolution

           D                 G
Like it's some place that you've been

                   C         G
Well you've been a long time gone

             D
Good too see you my old friend
BREAK C D G D Em VERSE
       C            D
Oh now that sign is gone away

    G      D        Em
Replaced instead by silver age 

    C                 D         G
and moonlight falling on the avenue

         C              D
Oh and I could sleep if you would drive

  G          D       Em
I just can't keep my mind alive

    C                  D              G
And you've got nothing better else to do
CHORUS 2
          C                G
And we've all been looking for you

       D             G
Like a hobo you walk in

             C               G
Well how the mighty all have fallen

        D
How the holy all have sinned

            C             G
Is that the clattering of sabers

       D              G
Or the cool September winds

                   C         G
Well you've been a long time gone

        D
Good to see you my old friend
BREAK C D G D Em VERSE
            C                D
And there's just two times a day like this

    G         D       Em
You find this kind of blissfulness

    C               D            G
The sun it sets and rises in the morn

          C               D
And we're shakin hands, I rub my eyes

G       D      Em
Free up all my alibis

       C                 D         G
Just a blinking like the day I was born
CHORUS
        C           G     D        G
And you look like 1968 or was it '69

       C                  G
When I heard you caught a bullet

       D
Well I guess you're doing fine

        C            G
And you speak of revolution

           D                 G
Like it's some place that you've been

                   C         G
Well you've been a long time gone

             D
Good too see you my old friend
OUTRO
             C                      G              D      G
And when the rounds were fired that April you were on the balcony

         C                   G                 D
When ten thousand tear drops hit the ground in Memphis, Tennessee

           C              G            D                G
You were a prideful rebel yell among a million marching men

                  C         G
And you've been a long time gone

        D              G
Good to see you my old friend

                   C         G
Well you've been a long time gone

        D              G
Good to see you my old friend