Chillout Tent chords by The Hold Steady

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

G - 320033
Em - 022000
C - x32010
D - xx0232
A5 - x022xx
Eb5 - x688xx
F5 - x81010xx

Verse:

Em                       D
There was a stage and a PA
                    C
up in western Massachusetts
C
And the kids came from miles
                                Em
around to get messed up on the music
                         D
And she drove down from Bowdoin
                   C
with a carload of girlfriends
C
To meet some boys and maybe eat some mushrooms
          Em
And they did and she got sick
           D
now she's pinned and way too shaky
C
She don't want to tell the doctor everything she's taken
Em
The paramedics hovered over like
   D
a somber mourning family
               C
They gave her activated charcoal
C
they flooded her with saline

Chorus:

G
I got really hot and then
   A5                      C
I came to in the chillout tent
                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes

Verse:

        Em
He was rough around the edges
              D
He'd been to school but never finished
C
He'd been to jail but never prison
                Em                        D
And it was his first day off in forever, man
                             C
The festival seemed like a pretty good plan
C
Cruise some chicks and get a suntan
Em
His friend gave him four
             D
but he said "only take one"
C
But then he got bored
C
and he ended up taking all four
Em
So now my man
               D
he ain't that bored, anyways
     C
The paramedics found him
C
he was shaking on the side of the stage

Chorus:

G
Everything was spinning
        A5                      C
Then I came to in the chillout tent
                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes
G
I got really hot and then
   A5                      C
I came to in the chillout tent
                          G          A5   C
They gave me oranges and cigarettes

Bridge:

     Em
She looked just like a baby bird
     D
all new and wet and
                   C
trying to light a Parliament
    Em
He quoted her some poetry
      D                          A5
he's Tennyson in denim and sheepskin
A5
He looked a lot like Izzy Stradlin
Eb5
They started kissing
          F5
when the nurses took off their IVs
      C
It was kind of of sexy
        D
but it was kind of creepy
Em
Their mouths were fizzy
          D
with the cherry cola
              C
They had the privacy of bedsheets
C
and all the other kids were mostly in comas

Chorus:

G
He was kind of cute
            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent
                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that boy again
G
She was pretty cool
            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent
                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that girl again
G
He was kind of cute
            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent
                      G          A5   C
And I never saw that boy again
G
She seemed pretty cool
            A5                        C
we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent
                      G          A5   C     G
And I never saw that girl again