Scowling Crackhead Ian chords by Jeffrey Lewis

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:
FF A minorAm G+G D MajorD DmDm A minorAm
FF A minorAm G+G A augmentedA G+G DmDm A minorAm


🎸 Verse:
FF
Scowling crackhead Ian
A minorAm
I can't forget your face
G+G           A minorAm
You were a foul human being
G+G    A minorAm
Way back on St. Mark's Place
FF
A augmentedA white thug when we were both poor
FF    A minorAm
A augmentedA life struggling for one quarter more
A minorAm    G+G
In sixth grade that's what you'd mug me for
G+G    DmDm             A minorAm
A augmentedA switch blade pressed up to my jugular
A minorAm  FF
So I feared for my next
FF
Safe streets were few
  A minorAm
My nerves grew wrecked near the Second Avenue
A minorAm   G+G                A minorAm     G+G
I soon learned how to steer clear of a crook or a crew
DmDm
And now I'm still here
DmDm        A minorAm
And look, so are you

🎸 Verse:
FF
Forever you've been crackhead Ian
FF      A minorAm
It was your kid nickname if we spoke it
A minorAm     G+G      A minorAm
You were an insane human being
G+G        DmDm            A minorAm
Whether you ever did or didn't really smoke it
FF A minorAm G+G G minorGm G+G A minorAm

🎸 Verse:
FF
I'd know that tall thin bent-over stroll
A minorAm
All sun burned and grim since ten or twelve years old
A minorAm    G+G
I guess yesterday is gone
   DmDm  G+G
Faces still intend our souls
DmDm                     A minorAm
An I guess both our mom's places are still on rent control
FF
I was that wick, small, sad, sag, punier guy
FF     A minorAm
You was as big, tall and bad back in junior high
G+G
No sight of someone's face has ever been scarier
DmDm                       A minorAm
You'd come chase me from Street Fighter One or Space Harrier

🎸 Bridge:
FF
Hello again, crackhead Ian
FF    A minorAm
I still can't forget your foul face
G+G        A augmentedA
My fellow human being
G+G               DmDm       A minorAm
I know we're both still planted on St. Mark's Place
A minorAm       FF
We've lived our poor lives in close parallel
FF      A minorAm
Within this four or five blocks we both know so well
A minorAm      G+G                 A minorAm    G+G
You must have grew up near the former theater or old gross hotel
A minorAm
I'm sure you're aware of me here, but oh I can't tell
FF
It seems you never outgrew your little preteen rage
A minorAm
I still see you look so mean though now we are middle-aged
A minorAm  G+G
I was eavesdropping last year at you laughing to tell
DmDm              A minorAm
About bashing some dude with a chair till he fell
FF
I slipped fast by you talking fear and our eyes would touch
A minorAm
Drifting past by new mornings that it all changed so much
G+G
I've never known your live story I'm sure it's rotten and tough
DmDm                           A minorAm
But how long before these roles for us have gotten old enough?
FF
You must've had it so rough kid
A minorAm
Well I wonder
G minorGm             A minorAm    G+G
Forged by a tiny portion of love or fortune
A minorAm
Goes lightning or goes thunder

🎸 Verse:
FF
You're a bad one crackhead Ian
A minorAm
A augmentedA sad son and sunburned pig
A minorAm       G+G
But of all the best kids seen downtown in our pre-teens
A minorAm
It's just you and me left I think
FF
How long till you notice?
A minorAm
How long until you shake my hand?
G+G              A minorAm
How long until we're old man neighbours?
G+G     DmDm         A minorAm
Last tribesmen of the vanished plant

🎸 Outro:
FF
We never even did exchange names
A minorAm
You were an evil kid from Hades
A minorAm   G+G
When we played these arcade games
G+G     DmDm        A minorAm
That made life great in the 80's
FF
Me and Ian
A minorAm
Me and Ian
G+G                    A minorAm
Ryding into the night of an east-village dream
G+G     DmDm             A minorAm
with these games in the street and the head and...
FF A minorAm G+G DmDm A minorAm
FF A minorAm G+G A minorAm
FF A minorAm G+G A minorAm