Old Age Acoustic chords by Nirvana

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

* = one strum

Verse 1:
Bb         G
Yes I'm breathing
Bb     G           Bb
Filthy hands, hey, hey
        G             Bb
Read to me, hey, hey, hey
        G*             G
Miss me, hey, hey, hey
Bb       G          Bb
Prefer me sad, hey, hey
                G Bb
And I wouldn't break
Bb                G Bb
She wouldn't miss me
Bb                 G*  Bb
She wouldn't miss me

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------1----------1---------1---3--3-----------------|
G|------------0-----------0-------2-2---------2---------------2---------------|
D|-----0--------3-3-3---------2----------2---------2------------3-0-----------|
A|---0------2------------2--3----------3---------3------------------0---------|
E|-0------3------------3-------------------------------0--------------0-------|

D Bb G D Bb G D

Verse 2:
D        Bb
And I am afraid
       D                   Bb G
It's a fire - our house is gone
Dm     Bb  Dm
and I refrain
Dm                   Bb
Are you god, Are you god
Bb      D
you little boy?
D            Bb           D
And now your fingers meet the floor
D             Bb
And now I can play with me
    D                    Bb G
And now I am one to obey me
D         Bb       D
Preach me fire and lead the way
D         Bb        D
Be silent bit and I will say
           Bb       D
You see in fire me away
              Bb  D  Bb D Bb D Bb D
And now, and now, hey

Verse 3:
D               Bb
Keep it down to one more species
D                      Bb
One more high and I'll feign my service
F          G              Bb
Someday I wound my way to something
D                  Bb
It's not hard to relieve my service
D                  Bb
Come inside of her inner circles
F                  G               Bb
Someday I won't be hiding away, it's over

Chorus:
D         Bb
She seems to read minds
D       Bb             D
And I'm dead, dumb and blind
D         Bb     D
Weigh the fame I use
D         Bb
She's the same
G   D
Old age (x3)

Verse 4:
D                 Bb
Some are gone and some are wanting
D                  Bb
Some were kind and I feigned my service
F              G                Bb
Someday I wont find my way, its over
D                 Bb
This young Mary believes my sermons
D                  Bb
One more hour and awake my servants
F                G                Bb
Someday I will allow my way to something

Chorus:
D         Bb
She seems to read minds
D       Bb             D
And I'm dead, dumb and blind
D        Bb          D
Face the face in the mirror
D     Bb
We survived
G    D
Old age (x4)

Bridge:
A                          Bb  F    A
It's such a fantasy you're all free
A                      Bb  F         Eb
Come on higher way I'm begging, see?

Verse 5:
D                   Bb
One more hour and I face my service
D                  Bb
Coming down to believe my sermon
F                   G               Bb
Someday i will have found my way to nothing
D             Bb
Secondary for fame my service
D                   Bb
One more high and I wont be serviced
F          G               Bb
Someday I wound my way to something

Chorus:
D         Bb
She seems to read minds
D       Bb             D
And I'm dead, dumb and blind
D        Bb     D
Weigh the fame I use
D      Bb
Jesus saves
G   D    G   D
Old age, old age
G  D  G
Jesus saves
G   D    G   D    G   D
Old age, old age, old age?