Same Kind Of Blue chords by Sam Baker

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
N.C.    C majorC
he was a quiet young man
    G+G
too shy to get a date
  C majorC
enlisted in the infantry
  FF
spring of ’68
     C majorC
the army taught him how to march
G+G
stuck him on a jet
    C majorC
had him crawling in a tunnel
FF      C majorC
right after tet
C majorC
with a flashlight
G+G   C majorC
and a 45
      C majorC
It was a long way to go
     G+G
for a boy named charlie
        C majorC
there were snakes there was jungle
      FF
there was all kinds of gnarly
C majorC
fighting somebody
G+G
everybody called charlie
A minorAm
a mean kind of joke
FF               C majorC
charlie fighting charlie

Chorus:
   A minorAm
way down in a tunnel
       G+G
where the fallen angels dwell
       C majorC
there is a quiet young man
   FF
crawling into hell
      C majorC   G+G   C majorC
with a flashlight and a 45
  A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
 FF
trying to survive
 A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
FF       DmDm   FF C majorC FF
just to stay alive

Verse:
   C majorC
he came back home
 G+G
drove real fast
   C majorC
a hopped up super sport
 FF
six speeds of bad ass
 C majorC
stop light dragging
  G+G
fastest thing around
 A minorAm         FF
all jacked up and screaming through town
 A minorAm               G+G    FF
whistling past the grave yard coming undone

Interlude:
A minorAm  FF
A minorAm FF
C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse:
     C majorC
then he married a good woman
    G+G
got a black land farm
    C majorC
they had a little girl
 FF
daddy’s lucky little charm
    C majorC           G+G
got a neighbor who served in wwII
 C majorC
he never said much
 FF
always kind of blue
 C majorC
always kind of blue
    G+G
they'd have a drink or two
  C majorC
charlie and old man
 FF
same kind of blue

Chorus:
   A minorAm
way down in a tunnel
       G+G
where the fallen angels dwell
       C majorC
there is a quiet young man
   FF
crawling into hell
      C majorC    G+G  C majorC
with a flashlight and a 45
  A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
 FF
trying to survive
 A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
FF
just to stay alive
A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
FF
trying to survive
A minorAm               FF
charlie fighting charlie

Chorus:
 FF            A minorAm
he said the only time
 FF            C majorC
he ever felt alive

was crawling through a tunnel
      FF     C majorC
with a loaded 45
 A minorAm
charlie fighting charlie
 FF
trying to survive
      A minorAm      G+G     FF   C majorC FF
it was the only time he ever felt alive