87 And A Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse The Longer I Go chords by Richmond Fontaine

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: G

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Verse 1:
G          Bm7     Em7        G
We were in Albuquerque at the fights
         Bm7                      Em
The referee wouldn’t stop the bout
          G
The kid’s blood hit the fifth row
       Bm7               Em7 G             C
How he didn’t die that night I don’t know
             Em           Bm7         Am
That was the night I gave up the fight

🎸 Verse 2:
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Driving down 25     towards Las Cruces
         Bm7                 Em   Dsus4 Em7
We saw a flipped-over semi
G                Bm7                           Em7
We pushed in the windshield and pulled the guy out
         D                         G
Left him laying on the side of the road
                             Em7                       C
My friend said we had to leave before the cops showed
                              Em                           Bm7
What he’d done I didn’t know. Just hoped the guy was still breathing
                  Am
As we disappeared down the road
Am7
I felt so bad


🎸 Verse 3:
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                 Bm7    Em7   G
Twenty miles out of Yuma   we picked up a girl
        Bm7                    Em
Saddest eyes and rotten teeth
             G
Said she was only 16
               Bm7                         Em
We pulled into Mojave and they got a room
         G                  C
With one bed he got a room
                                       G
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing ”
           Bm7                       Em7
“What’s it matter to you ” He said
    D                G
And led the girl in


🎸 Chorus:
          Bm7                    Em7
I started walking down the road
                                   C
Called the police from a payphone
                          Em     Bm                   Am
87 dollars and bad nerves
87 dollars and a bag of clothes
                                                     G
And a guilty conscience that gets worse the longer I go


🎸 Outro:
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