Farewell Youth Acoustic chords by The Menzingers

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

The Menzingers - Farewell Youth
Note: Acoustic version from From Exile

🎸 Intro:

G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
G+G C majorC  G+G           D MajorD
PA Turnpike, northbound on a dark night
G+G      C majorC  G+G          D MajorD
Driving into Scranton for a difficult occasion
            E minorEm  G+G             D MajorD
When you first got your license, we were nowhere to be found
          E minorEm    G+G             D MajorD
I was just a little kid back then, but you let me hang around

🎸 Chorus:
        G+G       B minorBm         E minorEm      C majorC
But we're older now, farewell youth
I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids
G+G      D MajorD        E minorEm       C majorC
 Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids

G+G

🎸 Verse 2:
G+G           C majorC    G+G           D MajorD
The grief starts when bumping into friends turned acquaintances
     G+G      C majorC   G+G                 D MajorD
We stumble around the small talk
We break the silence with the flask I brought
  D MajorD      E minorEm   G+G              D MajorD
But once we were inseparable, we were the only punks in town
  D MajorD          E minorEm   G+G              D MajorD
We spent every weekend raisin' hell in the basement of your parents house

🎸 Chorus:
        G+G       D MajorD          E minorEm      C majorC
but we're older now, farewell youth
I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids
G+G       D MajorD        E minorEm       C majorC
 Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids

🎸 Bridge:
       A minorAm            C majorC
In someone's apartment getting fucked up
  G+G             E minorEm
To all our favorite records drinking the cheap stuff
        A minorAm        C majorC
We couldn't get enough of growing up

C majorC

     C majorC         G+G       C majorC          A minorAm
I saw my childhood flash before me in the death of your closed eyes
    C majorC       G+G      C majorC       D MajorD
At your Irish wake, we celebrate by trying not to cry

🎸 Chorus:
G+G     B minorBm         E minorEm      C majorC
 Farewell youth
I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids
G+G       D MajorD        E minorEm       C majorC
 Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
   G+G       D MajorD         C majorC
I was always hanging out with the older kids

🎸 Outro:
     G+G
Farewell youth, farewell youth