{"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":642357,"song":"Back When I Was 4","artist":"Jeffrey Lewis","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11576392-back-when-i-was-4-chords-by-jeffrey-lewis/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/642357?type=chord","rating":4.71785,"votes":51,"content":"* = single strum, the rest is the above pattern.\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack when I was 4 and I knew the name of every dinosaur [/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI knew how to read ROM comic books [/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy babysitter said I was really smart [/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen the lights went out everything changed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe radio music made me feel strange [/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I had a real bad dream about a gorilla in the bathroom [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack when I was 6 I took everything real serious [/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I thought that every song that came on the radio [/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWas referring to strange sexual acts [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBecause they thought I wouldn't know the facts [/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd being small is hard and no one ever tells you how [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 8 I'd sit outside on an old milk crate [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd look out at the world from the stoop across the street [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch] \r\nThe boomboxes and the hot concrete [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd every Halloween they hung[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA million rubber skeletons across ninth street. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 12 or so I swear to god I never felt so low [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nEveryone but me was making out and eating cookies [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI had more than my brain could stand [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI threw my life in a garbage can [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nI felt so weird [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nI had to disappear [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn crying suicide disease. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd at 15 getting stoned felt good and it sent me back to childhood [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch] \r\nAnd nothing ever mattered to me more than that[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut then 16 became eclipse [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy brain became apocalypse [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was lost and found and I've never been the same[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 22 I left the best thing that I knew [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I gave it up for fortune and for fame [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nI played like I didn't know how [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI shocked the world I wowed the crowd [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I deserved more than what they gave [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack when I was 27 still nothing had been forgiven [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nClay turns into rock and rock just sits [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo sitting on a crowded beach [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'd pretend I was a leach [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd stick to things here and there for a little bit [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack when I was 31 I knew I'd become what I'd become [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNothing left to reveal [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd there was nowhere else to turn [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo shocked and withered dumb and bitter [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd in need of a babysitter [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'd gladly let my hand fall off and burn burn burn [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBack when I turned the big 4-0 I realized just how much there was to go [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I started to think that being alone forever [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWasn't where it was at [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo I pulled my head out of the window [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I taught myself how to love real fast [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nI started talking about painting [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith a woman in the laundromat [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 50 and my first wife had just left me [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI felt okay and I sang my daughter [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFunny little songs [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd just when I thought the best was past [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI fell in love for real at last [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd it didn't even matter that it had taken me so long [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 10]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 63 the public rediscovered me [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy comic books and albums had all become rare cult-collector items [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBoth my parents were deceased [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo they didn't see my records get re-released [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I got a dog for the first time in my life [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 11]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 74 my dog died and I got two more [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI still felt really good about my daughter [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd also about my girlfriend [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd sing and draw a little bit [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut mostly I'd wake up early and sit [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd hang out with the puppies and wish that I could live forever [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 12]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 87 and my grandson had just turned eleven [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy woman was dead [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd my dogs were getting pretty old [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]  [ch]E7[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy body didn't work quite like it should [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut overall things were pretty good [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was getting decent royalties from the reissued comic books and records [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 13]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]*                  [ch]A[/ch]*\r\nAnd back when I was 106 [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]*\r\nMy only friend [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]*\r\nWas one goldfish [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]*              [ch]A[/ch]*                  [ch]G[/ch]*\r\nEveryone I ever knew was dead and gone [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]*                 [ch]A[/ch]*\r\nAnd the goldfish never had a name [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]*                              [ch]D[/ch]*\r\nAnd the neighbors thought I was insane [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]*                                    [ch]A[/ch]*                       [ch]G[/ch]*\r\nAnd I flushed it down the toilet when I saw it floating upside down [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd back when I was 128 I'd sit outside on an old milk crate [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd look out at the world from the stoop across the street [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe boomboxes and the hot concrete [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd every Halloween they hung [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E7[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA million rubber skeletons across 9th street [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nEvery Halloween they hung [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA million rubber skeletons [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nEvery Halloween they hung [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA million rubber skeletons [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nEvery Halloween they hung [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA million rubber skeletons[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]","plain_text":"* = single strum, the rest is the above pattern.\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 9]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 10]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 11]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 12]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 13]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nA A G D","chords":["D","A","G","E7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}