Story Of My Old Man chords by Good Charlotte

Chords with lyrics

Song: The Story of My Old Man
Band: Good Charlotte
Album: The Young And The Hopeless
Tabbed by: Josiah ([email protected])

This is a really easy song. The lyrics might not be completely
correct but i don't know because the CD i have is burned.

Verse 1: Power chords of course

                 E5E5      F#5F#5
I don?t know too much about too much of my old man
  B5B5                    E5E5      F#5F#5
I know he walked right out the door and we never saw him again
 B5B5               E5E5     F#5F#5
Last I heard he was at the bar doin? himself in
  B5B5                 E5E5        F#5F#5
I know I got that same disease I got stuck with it from him

Chorus: Guitar 1
G#5G#5     F#5F#5      E5E5
This is the story of my old man
G#5G#5      F#5F#5      E5E5
Just like his father before him
   G#5G#5      F#5F#5     E5E5
I?m tellin? you do anything you can
  G#5G#5      F#5F#5      E5E5
So you don?t end up just like them....like them

Chorus: Guitar 2

G--8-8-8886-6-6664-4-4444-4-444-|
D--x-x-xxxx-x-xxxx-x-xxxx-x-xxx-|
A--6-6-6664-4-4442-2-2222-2-222-| PLAY 4X DURING CHORUS

Verse 2: Clean picking (regular chords, not power chords)

BB     G# minorG#m     E MajorE
Monday he woke up and hated life
BB      G# minorG#m      E MajorE
Drank until Wednesday and left his wife
 BB        G# minorG#m     E MajorE
Thursday through Saturday lost everything
 BB     G# minorG#m  E(stop)
Woke up on Sunday miserable again

Interlude between verses 2 and 3:

G--4-4-4444-4-444-|
D--x-x-xxxx-x-xxx-|
A--2-2-2222-2-222-| PLAY 3X

Verse 3:

Interlude           E5E5      F#5F#5
I remember baseball games and working on the car
  B5B5              E5E5       F#5F#5
He told me that he loved me and that I would go far
  B5B5               E5E5      F#5F#5
He taught me how to work hard and stick up for myself
 B5B5             E5E5     F#5F#5
I wish it wasn?t too hard to listen to himself

REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT VERSE 2 but instead of stopping at the end, keep the chord
progression going a couple more times.

Break: Just play the chorus the same way with both guitars

Verse 4:

 B5B5      G#5G#5      E5E5
Someday he?ll wish that he?d made things right (made things right)
 B5B5      G#5G#5    E5E5
Long for his family and miss his wife (miss his wife)
 B5B5     G#5G#5     E5E5
Remember the days he had everything (everything)
B5B5    G#5G#5    E5(stop)
Now he?s alone and miserable again

That?s it. That song rocks. It is one of the many songs about Joel?s
dad (others include Complicated, Emotionless. Little Things and
Waldorf Worldwide mention him). This tab is pretty much accurate so
have fun with it. Peace out!