Lead Paint And Salt Air chords by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
N.C.
One, two, three

One, two, three

FF C majorC
FF C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
FF G+G

Verse 1:
    C majorC
Down in Asbury Park

In a sublet I'm renting
 FF
I got a new job

Where Iâ??m out painting houses
  A minorAm
The sun on my neck and some cash in my pocket
  G+G
At least there's fresh air here
    C majorC
I watch families stroll by with their kids on vacation
    FF
Scrape decades of lead paint and salt air off porches
 A minorAm
Alone with my thoughts

And a breeze off the ocean
   G+G
And I smile for the first time this year

G+G A augmentedA BB C majorC D MajorD E MajorE

Chorus:
     FF
I walk alone
        C majorC
In the mist of the evening
     FF           C majorC
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
 C majorC   C/BC/B A minorAm          FF
I watch the sky turn violent with light
         G+G
On the fourth of July

Verse 2:
      C majorC
I've been spending my nights in a dive off the boardwalk
 FF
A augmentedA sad open mic

Iâ??ve been playing these damn songs
   A minorAm
They yell out for Springsteen, or Dylan, or Mitchell
  G+G
But these, these are all that I've got

G+G A augmentedA BB C majorC D MajorD E MajorE

Chorus:
     FF
I walk alone
        C majorC
In the mist of the evening
     FF           C majorC
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
 C majorC   C/BC/B A minorAm          FF
I watch the sky turn violent with light
         G+G
On the fourth of July

Bridge:
E minorEm            FF
 I've picked up smoking again
     C majorC             G+G
'Cause I like how it makes all the days go by fast
E minorEm         FF
 Picked up smoking again
      C majorC             G+G
'Cause something's gonna kill me some day
      A minorAm
So why not that?
       G+G
I'm smoking again
       C majorC
'Cause I like it
  G+G        FF    A minorAm
Why canâ??t I just like it?
         G+G A augmentedA BB C majorC D MajorD E MajorE
Iâ??m smoking again

Chorus:
     FF
I walk alone
        C majorC
In the mist of the evening
     FF           C majorC
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
 C majorC   C/BC/B A minorAm          FF
I watch the sky turn violent with light
         G+G
On the fourth of July

A minorAm