Rollerblades chords by Dan Bern

Chords with lyrics

Note: Roman numerals in parentheses are fret for bar chord to be played.

Intro:
C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G

    C majorC              G+G         C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
Let me tell you ?bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
   C majorC              G+G         C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
I?ll tell you ?bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
  FF              C majorC             FF            C majorC
My poet and my painter friends called me from a bar, they said take a taxi if you don?t have a car
    FF           C majorC           FF            C majorC       G+G
We?ll talk about Monica and Clinton and Starr and that was the best night that I spent in New York so far
C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G  C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G

    C majorC          G+G      C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
I was living in a hotel on 25th and 3rd Avenue
  C majorC         G+G        C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
A augmentedA noodle shop and a pizza place was my view
   FF         C majorC           FF                 C majorC
The poet had lived six years in the hotel the painter was from England from the town of Bristol
 FF          C majorC         FF       C majorC  G+G      FF          C majorC
Massive Attack was playing and he said he could get us all in, 'cause they?re from Bristol, too
   FF            C majorC       G+G      C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
And that was the best night that I spent in New York so far

Bridge:
F#m(IX)           C#C# (IX)
I should say by way of explanation, that this
E(077900)        B(799800)
Girl I met in Amsterdam turned me on to Massive Attack
D(X)               A(V)       G(III)
She was cool and so are they and life is good sometimes

C majorC         G+G        C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
After the show we went to a party with the band
  C majorC          G+G        C majorC C/GC/G C majorC C/GC/G
I didn't say a word to anybody, that's how I am
   FF           C majorC          FF             C majorC
The poet left the party to meet up with a girl, me and the painter started walking up Third
  FF             C majorC        FF         C majorC       A minorAm               FF
At four in the morning for a doner-kabob and somewhere in there I decided to buy some rollerblades the next day
 FF            C majorC
That was the best night that I spent
 FF            C majorC
That was the best night that I spent
 FF            C majorC       G+G      C majorC  FF C majorC
That was the best night that I spent in New York so far