San Quentin chords by Nickelback

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Dm

🎸 Intro:

 D5  | D5  : 2x




🎸 Verse 1:
G5   D5
        Let’s get this circus
C5   D5
        On down the road
C5   D5                                  C5   A5  G5     A5   F5   G5
        We’re taking bets how far a tank of  gas will go
D5
  Call up your best friend
C5   D5
        Then comes your mom
C5   D5                                C5     A5  G5  A5   F5   G5
        About to do some shit that you ain’t seen  befo---re
D5
 There ain’t no back door
C5   D5
        There ain’t no sign
C5   D5                           C5  A5   G5   A5    F5    G5
        Location changes almost every o--ther  night
D5
 Last time we found it
C5   D5
        Can’t remember much
C5   D5                          D5
I  thought I was a God until my lawyer woke me up and said…

🎸 Chorus:
   Dm   C              Gm             C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
         Dm      C           Gm              C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
          Dm     C             Gm     C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
    C          F
So somebody, please
      Gm         F               Dm    C    Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C            Dm     C    Gm
Out of San Quentin
             C            Dm     C    Gm
Just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
                F
Can somebody, please
      Gm     F                Dm     C5   D5   C5   D5   G5
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin


🎸 Verse 2:
G5   D5
        Got out on bail
C5   D5
        We hit the town
C5   D5                                 C5  A5  G5  A5   F5   G5
        Somebody told me we should burn it to the ground
D5
 Too many favors
C5   D5
        Too much to drink
C5   D5
        Come 6AM they had me back inside the clink


🎸 Chorus:
   Dm   C              Gm             C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
         Dm      C           Gm              C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
          Dm     C             Gm     C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
    C          F
So somebody, please
      Gm         F               Dm    C    Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C            Dm     C    Gm
Out of San Quentin
             C            Dm     C    Gm
Just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
                F
Can somebody, please
      Gm         F            Dm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin


🎸 Solo:
 Dm  | Dm  :

 Dm   C  | Gm   C  : 3x

 C   F  | Gm   F  | Dm  :


🎸 Instrumental:
 D5  | D5  :


🎸 Bridge:
 D5
Tough to fight
I got an alibi
  D5
Wrong or right, it’s tough to justify
     D5
You can’t dismiss too many witnesses
        D5
When insanity’s the plan
          D5
It don’t matter what it is


🎸 Chorus:
   Dm   C              Gm             C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
         Dm      C           Gm              C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
          Dm     C             Gm     C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
    C          F
So somebody, please
      Gm         F               Dm    C    Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C            Dm     C
Out of San Quentin
Gm               C            Dm    C    Gm
Oh, just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
                F
Can somebody, please
      Gm         F            Dm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin