{"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":1840582,"song":"Nostalgia Blues","artist":"Simon Joyner","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11407364-nostalgia-blues-chords-by-simon-joyner/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1840582?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"The picking/strum pattern is probably the toughest thing\r\nabout this song. I kind of just try to do some odd\r\ncombination of strumming & picking during the verses\r\n& choruses, then just strumming for the bridges.\r\nHave fun with it (but not too much).\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\nVerse 1\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    See you still haven't quit smoking[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIs that really all that you can think to say?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI remember your bedsheets smudged with ashes and burns[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen you stayed up all night reading The Brothers K[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    I know nostalgia's a Southall waitress[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSaving nickels for a rainy day far removed[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nStill I can't ever remember seeing your tongue so tied[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr your hands shake so loose[/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge 1\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Yes, everyone wants to believe their time was special, Nick[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSee the dish run away with the spoon[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus 1\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen they settle down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they settle in[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd they curse the night for givin' them all those sweet dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll those sweet dreams, they bartered and sold[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo long ago[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 2\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    Coachie was wise to get out when he did[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd hitch his pony to an actual star[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C/B[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou know, he's playing the Sydney Opera House tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAren't y'all still sleeping on strangers' wooden floors, yes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    How'd you get that iceberg way up on your shoulder, Jim?[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCan't we force our old demons into a truce?[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNo, I'm afraid what we did was secret then[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDon't act surprised it now applies to you[/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge 2\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    I guess everyone thinks genius is in their blood[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOr at least livin' down the street a door or two[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus 2\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd then they settle down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they settle in[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd they curse the night for punishing them with those sweet dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll those sweet dreams that exposed their soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo long ago[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    Bobby says the translator's nightmare is finding all the right words[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut somehow still gettin' the whole story wrong[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]C/B[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd all you guitar poets, well you're life's little butchers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Go ahead and put that one in your song[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    You've got endless tales of love gone bad[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI guess our Romeo is really cursed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C/B[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n    You poke your nose in everyone's dirty clothes[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo you can turn 'em into your light, loose verse[/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge 3\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Well, my life isn't neat rhymes and punchlines[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nCheap laughs and your talking blues[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    And I wish that for just one time[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou could stand inside my shoes[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus 3\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou could settle down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you could settle in[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd you could curse the night for givin' you all those sweet dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll those sweet dreams I watched corrode[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo long ago[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 4\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    Well, it's easy to get hung up[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn all the things that you'll never have[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C/B[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n    A backyard pool, your mother's love,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJohn Lennon's autograph[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n    Some people step into an ambulance[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile others slip into a trance[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n    I've heard the sky blooms Picassos, though[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you stop and give the clouds half a chance[/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge 4\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    But I won't go to your funeral, Sue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut I've got a couch if you ever need a place to crash[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus 4\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe could settle down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe could settle in[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe could thank the night for givin' us all those sweet dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll those sweet dreams, like swords pulled from stones[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhile we filled our notebooks with grass, branch, and bone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAw, here's to the sweet dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat wouldn't leave us alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo long ago[/tab]","plain_text":"The picking/strum pattern is probably the toughest thing\nabout this song. I kind of just try to do some odd\ncombination of strumming & picking during the verses\n& choruses, then just strumming for the bridges.\nHave fun with it (but not too much).\n\n\nIntro: F C F C\n       F C C/B Am\n       F G\n\nVerse 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 1\n\n\n\nChorus 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 2\n\n\n\nChorus 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 3\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 4\n\n\n\nChorus 4","chords":["F","C","C/B","Am","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}