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

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
N.C.
One, two, three

One, two, three

F  C
F  C  C/B  Am
F  G

Verse 1:
        C
Down in Asbury Park

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

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

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

G A B C D E

Chorus:
         F
I walk alone
                C
In the mist of the evening
          F                     C
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
  C     C/B Am                    F
I watch the sky turn violent with light
                 G
On the fourth of July

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

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

G A B C D E

Chorus:
         F
I walk alone
                C
In the mist of the evening
          F                     C
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
  C     C/B Am                    F
I watch the sky turn violent with light
                 G
On the fourth of July

Bridge:
Em                        F
  I've picked up smoking again
         C                         G
'Cause I like how it makes all the days go by fast
Em                  F
  Picked up smoking again
            C                         G
'Cause something's gonna kill me some day
           Am
So why not that?
             G
I'm smoking again
             C
'Cause I like it
    G               F        Am
Why canâ??t I just like it?
                  G A B C D E
Iâ??m smoking again

Chorus:
         F
I walk alone
                C
In the mist of the evening
          F                     C
Under the glow of the Paramount sign
  C     C/B Am                    F
I watch the sky turn violent with light
                 G
On the fourth of July

Am