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Aminor

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1/8

Tempo 80 BPMVol

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NOTE: There's a little riff/flourish to play on the last Am in each line of the verse:
e|-Am------------------------------|
B|------0h1-0----------0h1-0-----|
G|------------2--------------2---|
D|-------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|
[Intro]
  C    G      Amx2
[Verse]
CWhere's the paper Gbag that holds the liAmquor?
CJust in case I Gfeel the need to pAmuke
  CIf we'd knowGn what it'd take to get Amhere
  CWould we have chosen Gto? Would we have chosen Amto?
  CSo you wanna build an Galtar on a summer Amnight
  CYou wanna smoke the Ggel off a fentanyl Ampatch
  CAintcha heard the Gnews? AmAdam and Eve were Jews
  CAnd I always Gloved you to the mAmax
I loved you to the mAmax
I love you to the mAmax
I love you to the mAmax
[Bridge]
(Cassie) If it gets Freally really bad, if it ever gets Creally really bad...
(David) DmLet's not kid ourselves
(David & Cassie) It gets Freally really bAmad
[Instrumental]
  Am    Bmx12
[Chorus]
CPunks in the beerlGight, burnouts in lAmove
CPunks in the beerlGight, Toulouse-LautrAmec
CPunks in the beerlGight, two burnouts in lAmove
  CI always Gloved you to the mAmax
I love you to the mAmax
I love you to the mCax
I love you to the mGax
I love you to the mAmax
I love you to the mAmax
I love you to the...
C  G  Am  Am
Am  Am
Ammax!

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Punks In The Beerlight

by Silver Jews

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

NOTE: There's a little riff/flourish to play on the last Am in each line of the verse:

e|-------------------------------|

B|------0h1-0----------0h1-0-----|

G|------------2--------------2---|

D|-------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------|

[Intro]

C G Am

[Verse]

C G Am

Where's the paper bag that holds the liquor?

C G Am

Just in case I feel the need to puke

C G Am

If we'd known what it'd take to get here

C G Am

Would we have chosen to? Would we have chosen to?

C G Am

So you wanna build an altar on a summer night

C G Am

You wanna smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch

C G Am

Aintcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews

C G Am

And I always loved you to the max

I loved you to the max

I love you to the max

[Bridge]

F C

(Cassie) If it gets really really bad, if it ever gets really really bad...

(David) Let's not kid ourselves

F Am

(David & Cassie) It gets really really bad

[Instrumental]

Am Bm

x12

[Chorus]

C G Am

Punks in the beerlight, burnouts in love

C G Am

Punks in the beerlight, Toulouse-Lautrec

C G Am

Punks in the beerlight, two burnouts in love

C G Am

I always loved you to the max

I love you to the max

I love you to the...

C G Am Am

Am Am

max!

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