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?