Farewell Youth Acoustic chords by The Menzingers

• Difficulty: Beginner

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

🎸 Intro:

G



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

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

G

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

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


🎸 Bridge:
             Am                       C
In someone's apartment getting fucked up
   G                         Em
To all our favorite records drinking the cheap stuff
                Am                C
We couldn't get enough of growing up

C

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

🎸 Chorus:
G          Bm                  Em            C
  Farewell youth
I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
      G              D                  C
I was always hanging out with the older kids
G             D               Em              C
  Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
      G              D                  C
I was always hanging out with the older kids

🎸 Outro:
         G
Farewell youth, farewell youth