{"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":1138343,"song":"Almost Eighteen","artist":"Roy Orbison","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1138343-almost-eighteen-chords-by-roy-orbison/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1138343?type=chord","rating":4.89259,"votes":4,"content":"Almost Eighteen:Roy Orbison.\r\nRecorded on RCA in 1959. Didn't chart.\r\nToo bad, because it's a good song.\r\n(Acoustic guitar.)\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n#1.\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen a lot of sugar and lace.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen with an angel face.[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe says I'm her kind of guy..[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand if I leave her she'll die..uh, huh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#2.\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 \r\nI'll flip upside down and all the way around.[/tab]\r\n\r\nI'm acting like a clown because I think I've found,\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nthe cream of the crop, I know I'll never stop..[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'll go on lovin' my baby, she's a grown up lady, now.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nFull skirt, don't flirt, ballerina shoes..[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\npin slips, two lips that never sing the blues.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#3.\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen, a ribbon in her hair.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen, my baby's young and fair.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nUh-uh, I'll never let her go..because, oh, [/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI love her so, oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#4.\r\n[tab]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe's gonna have her birthday then we'll run away.[/tab]\r\n\r\nWe're gonna find a preacher, let him be the teacher.\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGonna Honeymoon all through the month of June..[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\ndarlin' we'll have time until we're ninety nine, yea, yea.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nWedding bells gonna ring, we're gonna be together.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI love her, she loves me, our love'll live forever.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#5.\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen, she's a swingin' queen.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen, oh, what a lovely dream.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nUntil the end of time my baby's mine, all mine, uh-huh.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost Eighteen..[/tab]\r\n\r\nOUTRO:\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlmost eighteen..almost eighteen..almost eighteen..(Fade.)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA fifties smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Almost Eighteen:Roy Orbison.\nRecorded on RCA in 1959. Didn't chart.\nToo bad, because it's a good song.\n(Acoustic guitar.)\n\nINTRO: A\n\n#1.\n\n\n\n\n\n#2.\n\n\nI'm acting like a clown because I think I've found,\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n#3.\n\n\n\n\n\n#4.\n\n\nWe're gonna find a preacher, let him be the teacher.\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n#5.\n\n\n\n\n\nOUTRO:\n\n\n\n\nA fifties smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["A","D","E","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}