New Years Day chords by Slaid Cleaves

Slaid Cleaves - New Year's Day





CAPO: 2nd Fret




      C                       F                C
Well, you might think there's nothing left but ashes
              F                 C
In a box on a table at Crosby's Bar
            F                   G               C        ~        Am
But there's more than meets the eye, you didn't leave us when you died
     F                              G
Your spirit will live on in what we do and who we are

     C                     F                 C
Aunt Betty's gonna tell us stories 'bout the family
                        F                   C
Daughter Susan is gonna sing your favourite song
       F                    G            C            ~        Am
Cousin Perry will spend the day, telling tales of the blue and grey
        F                                 G
And the Cajun will keep picking all night long


        C                 F             C
We'll be putting down the brisket and tequila
                           F              C
Down in Kerrville with the Seekers of the Shade
         F                  G       C    ~       Am
'Cause a piece of you lives on, not only in this song
       F                                   G
But in all the lives you touched and every friendship that you made


CHORUS:
            F                  G                  C
We're gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and lobsters
F                     G            C
Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun bay
         F                 G            C         ~       Am
We'll be home by Christmas Eve, telling tales you won't believe
          F              G                     C
And we'll swim in Barton Springs on New Year's Day


INSTRUMENTAL: C   F  C    F  C    F  G  C ~ Am  F    G


      C                     F            C
Well, Greg's gonna walk the aisles up at Carlisle
                F                     C
Bringing smiles just like you used to do
      F                    G              C            ~        Am
Uncle Dave's got a whiskey toast, I'll be driving from coast to coast
         F                                G
And your smiling face will live on in the heart of widow Sue


                C               F            C
Oh, we're gonna jump across the mighty Mississippi
                        F             C
Way up north where it's just a little stream
        F                    G          C       ~      Am
Brother Bill's gonna keep an eye on the kin you left behind
        F                             G
For you taught us how to live and you showed us how to dream


CHORUS:
            F                  G                  C
We're gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and lobsters
F                     G            C
Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun bay
         F                 G            C         ~       Am
We'll be home by Christmas Eve, telling tales you won't believe
          F              G                     C
And we'll swim in Barton Springs on New Year's Day


CHORUS:
                  F                  G                    C
Yeah, we're gonna go up to Maine and suck on the heads of lobsters
       F          G                 C
Like a Cajun gone home to Frenchman Bay
         F                 G            C         ~       Am
We'll be home by Christmas Eve, telling tales you won't believe
          F              G                     C