The Spirit Of Jazz chords by The Gaslight Anthem

Chords with lyrics

American Slang.' If you don't have this album I highly reccommend it. One of my
new all time faves!

Here goes...

Intro: G, E, G, E, C majorC (the same as the verse)

Verse:

G+G
The cool is dead, baby go on to sleep
E MajorE
Rest your weary head and lover bury me
G+G
And in the morning we'll start over again
E MajorE                C majorC
That's how they do it up on the screen
G+G
So me and my baby we would dance all night
E MajorE
But I don't know the steps in my baby's time
G+G
To do it like they do it for the girls uptown
E MajorE                 C majorC
I hear they light 'em up like the blues

Pre-Chorus:


    E MajorE        C majorC
So I'm waiting, so I'm waiting
     E MajorE         C majorC
And she's waiting, and she's waiting

     D MajorD
For us to remember...


Chorus:


   E MajorE    C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
Was I good to you, the wife of my youth
  E MajorE         C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do
  E MajorE   C majorC      G+G    D MajorD
So I will wait on the edges in between
   C majorC    D MajorD
These New York streets
           G+G
Where you and I would meet

Post Chorus: G, E, G, E, C majorC (the same as the verse)


Verse 2:

G+G
For 29 years we loved that line
E MajorE
And I would take it easy if I had your mind
G+G
But I'm a cannonball to a house on fire
E MajorE              C majorC
And you're slow like Motown Soul
G+G
So what now lover with your long black hair?
E MajorE
If I cut you open baby I can repair
G+G
And bandage your wounds with the salt on my tongue
E MajorE              C majorC
And I'm the only one 'round here


Pre-Chorus 2:


    E MajorE        C majorC
So I'm waiting, so I'm waiting
     E MajorE         C majorC
And she's waiting, and she's waiting

     D MajorD
For us to recover...


Chorus 2:


   E MajorE    C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
So was I good to you, the wife of my youth
  E MajorE         C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do
  E MajorE   C majorC      G+G    D MajorD
So I will wait on the edges in between
   C majorC    D MajorD
These New York streets
           G+G
Where you and I would meet


Bridge:

     E MajorE C majorC G+G     D MajorD
And only I can heal your wounds
   E MajorE C majorC  G+G     D MajorD
Only I can heal your wounds
     E MajorE    C majorC
When you can't go on
     G+G    D MajorD
When you can't go on
     E MajorE    C majorC
When you can't go on
     D MajorD      E MajorE
When you can't go on, anymore...


Muted Pre-Chorus:


     E MajorE    C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
So was I good to you, the wife of my youth
  E MajorE         C majorC
Not another soul could love you
    G+G D MajorD
Like my...


Chorus 3:

   E MajorE    C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
So was I good to you, the wife of my youth
  E MajorE         C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do
  E MajorE   C majorC      G+G    D MajorD
So I will wait on the edges in between
   C majorC    D MajorD
These New York streets
       C majorC    D MajorD
On all these New York streets
           G+G
Where you and I would meet


Hopefully everything is okay but as I worked this out by ear who knows?