87 And A Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse The Longer I Go chords by Richmond Fontaine
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 3rd
- Difficulty: Intermediate 💪
Key: G
🎸 Intro:
C Cm7 Bm7 Bm7 C Cm7 Bm7 Bm7 Am Am7
🎸 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:
G Bm7 Em G
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:
C Cm7 Bm7 Bm7 Cm7 Cm7 Bm7 D G
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:
G Bm7 Em Em7 C Cm7 Bm7 Bm7 C Cm7 Bm7 Bm7 Am Am G Published:
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