Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
FF
F -1p----------|-0-------|-0-------|
BB -----3-1-----|---1-----|---1-----|
G+G ---------0---|-----0---|-----0---|
D MajorD -------------|---------|---------|
A augmentedA -----------3-|-------3-|-------3-|
E MajorE -------------|---------|---------|
🎸 Verse:
FF B/G F minorFm
Life is short and it sure flies by
C majorC
Even yesterday's gone away
FF B/G
One day you're learning what's wrong from right
F minorFm FF
The next you're well on your way
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
C majorC F minorFm C majorC
No, I don't claim to know the secret
FF BB
To staying young and full of life
F minorFm C majorC
But the Good Lord knows the old (????)
FF BB BB
It helps to think what life was like
🎸 Chorus:
FF B/G
When I was twelve in El Dorado
F minorFm C majorC
Fireworks lit up the sky
FF BB
Runnin' free that first tornadoes
F minorFm C majorC
Wild and restless in the night
FF BB
Oh that mesa the Rector High School
F minorFm C majorC
Men at night felt more alive
FF BB F minorFm
Oh I hope I'll always remember what it's like
C majorC
Through a child's eyes
🎸 Instrumental:
FF BB F minorFm C majorC
Verse]
FF B/G F minorFm
Do you remember what days were like
C majorC
Before the world became a scary place
FF B/G
Some lose their faith and some lose their sight
F minorFm C majorC
Of what really matters anyway
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
F minorFm C majorC
No, I don't claim to know the secret
FF BB
To keep our candles burning bright
F minorFm C majorC
But I sure hope the old (????)
FF BB F minorFm
I don't forget what life was like
🎸 Chorus:
FF
When I was twelve in El Dorado
F minorFm FF
Fireflies lit up the sky
C majorC FF B/G
Where my sweet sixteen that I couldn't wait for
F minorFm C majorC
I got those keys and took a dri-ive
FF BB
Yeah that first summer playing sotball
F minorFm C majorC
What I'd give to Go back in time
FF BB F minorFm
Oh I hope I'll always rememebr what it's like
C majorC FF FF B minorBm
Through a child's eyeees
🎸 Break:
FF BB BB C majorC
Gettin' roped takes its toll
FF
Yeah in my mind I know that
B minorBm F minorFm BB
I can always go
🎸 Chorus:
FF BB F minorFm C majorC
To when I was twelve in El Dorado
FF BB F minorFm C majorC
I was twelve in El Dorado
FF BB
When I was twelve in El Dorado
F minorFm C majorC
Up in fields of butterflies
FF BB
Or with my daddy watching baseball
F minorFm C majorC
In that dome built to the sky
🎸 Chorus:
FF BB
Yeah that mesa, Rector High School
F minorFm C majorC
Before we spread our wings to fly
FF BB F minorFm
Oh I hope I'll always rememeber what it's like
C majorC FF BB F minorFm
Through a child's eyeees
C majorC FF BB F minorFm C majorC
Through a child's eyeees