State Of The Union chords by Richard Shindell

Richard Shindell - State Of The Union


CAPO: 3rd Fret


INTRO: Em  C  (5x)

     Em        G           C           G     C
That nice easy mark at the edge of the park
               G      C   D
A slam dunk if ever I saw one
  Em              G                C         G
I don't know what happened, I just let it go by
  C           D        Em     C  Em  C
I guess maybe out of respect

         Em         G             C          G     C
This old town is my home, and I'm not so far gone
                       G      C     D
That I don't feel like anyone else
       Em          G        C          G
And it didn't seem right to add to the wrong
    C        D           Em
I decided to get me some help


CHORUS:
   C                         D        Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C        G     D
Over and over again
        Em         G         C          Am
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
     C            D           Em   C  Em  C
I've heard it can happen that way


          Em          G           C           G
So I went down to the clinic on a Hundred and Tenth
  C          G      C         D
I got on the methadone program
  Em        G          C          G
I waited on line every morning at nine
       C            D         Em     C  Em  C
For my little white cup, my reprieve


       Em     G          C         G
It was going okay, I was feeling alright
  C        G        C   D
I even got back with my daughter
  Em         G                  C        G    C
I lost a few friends, they were anything but
                 D      Em
Just took it one day at time


CHORUS:
   C                         D        Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C        G     D
Over and over again
        Em         G         C          Am    C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
                D           Em   C  Em  C
They say it can happen that way


INSTRUMENTAL: G  C  G C G  C  D Em G  C  G C D  Em  C  Em  C


  Em            G           C         G     C
I can't say for sure how it all fell apart
               G    C  D
One thing just led to another
Em           G           C        G
Next thing I knew, I had stolen a car
      C               D         Em     C  Em  C
I was flying straight up to the Bronx


        Em           G        C              G
Must've lost the old touch, I blew through a toll
     C              G          C D
They caught me just outside of Rye
         Em         G            C           G
Sporting all that remained of my new-found resolve
  C          D       Em
A shirt that said NYPD


CHORUS:
     C                      D        Em
Some shred of my soul could almost believe
         C               G            D
That the Lord sent those cruisers for me
        Em         G         C          Am    C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
                    D           Em
But it don't always happen that way



INTERLUDE: C  Em  C  Em  C  Em  C


       Em            G      C        G
At the half-way house we're sitting around
C            G            C  D
Watching the State of the Union
        Em           G     C                 G
Me, I'm rolling that stone right back up the hill
      C           D           Em    C  Em  C
Watch out for the shit coming down


           Em          G        C             G
'Cause the President's up there grinning that grin
C                 G        C    D
Thinking he's some kind of John Wayne
      Em          G                C          G
We're howling and jeering, all his talk about drilling
    C            D          Em
And shooting our way out of this


CHORUS:
   C                            D         Em
If not now then when, we're all asking ourselves
C        G     D
Over and over again
        Em         G         C          Am    C
Make it right? Get free? Get rid of the junk?
                    D           Em
But it don't always happen that way