{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1714006,"song":"Pink Slips","artist":"Okkervil River","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11361729-pink-slips-chords-by-okkervil-river/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1714006?type=chord","rating":0.16631,"votes":0,"content":"Capo on 3. \r\nCredit to domoneill92 for the verses, but I wanted to get one up with the chorus (I think) right. \r\nHit me with your input. In the first line of the chorus, I'm torn between an F#m and a G following the D. \r\n\r\n\r\nIntro: \r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]                     \r\nThree brides before breakfast. These rails just wrecked us. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy right hand on my heart while my left hand snaps your necklace.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nEach day gets a little more scary. We're holding on, in a way, but just barely. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMoms and Dads are rationing their cash for the commissary. [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I can't start without going all the way - it's a habit someone gave me. [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]                         \r\nThe nursemaid of the blank page. A canary of the American eclipse. [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]         \r\nA profiteer picking up pink slips.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]                                \r\nThis wish just to go back, hey... when I know wasn't ever, ever happy! [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShow me my best memory - it's probably super crappy. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]                  \r\nNine years down in Texas, with sluts of both sexes, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nliars, lumps, and drug addicts, and drunks; I love my friends, [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nbut I can't stop without going all the way, and I've been that way since '83.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe midwife of the jetlife. Oh, genie with a golden spliff. [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA prostitute paid in pink slips.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors. When the call came, there was nobody here. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                             \r\nWhen they came from the communists, I kissed them on the lips. [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen they came for the singers, in a haze of pink slips.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]Em[/ch]              \r\nI guess I was just dreaming and drifting, artificially lifted. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOnly happy until the age of ten is still a gift, [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]       \r\nbut we can't go back to those   \"227\"     days. [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's just a dream we all were having. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHey, mariner in the dirt trade. Oh, postman of the post-apocalypse - [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nfrom Academy Awards to pink slips![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I showered my Corvette with Moët for years, but now I'm standing[/tab]\r\n in the rain drinking the champagne of beers. \r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey say, \"Who's that shadow sneaking off behind the pier? [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe was rushed and then he was rattled, but now he's finally in the clear to be a [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nrefugee from the rat race, in his white tuxedo and his sad-face. [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                    \r\nA music group that your dad plays, singing songs about autumn days. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe's the laureate of the Granite State, and now he doesn't even write, he just riffs. [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they'll cover up his coffin with pink slips.[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo on 3. \nCredit to domoneill92 for the verses, but I wanted to get one up with the chorus (I think) right. \nHit me with your input. In the first line of the chorus, I'm torn between an F#m and a G following the D. \n\n\nIntro: \nG Em Am C D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG Em Am C D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n in the rain drinking the champagne of beers.","chords":["F#m","G","D","Em","Am","C","Bm","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}