Capo
1
Difficulty
Intermediate πͺ
Rate for accuracy
🎸
Intro:
NONE
Verse:
D Em G
She said, "Take me down every dirt road in Alabama
D Em G
It's Friday night and I got nowhere to go
D Em G
Daddy's drunk and Mama's busy crying
D Esus4 Em G
I just wanna feel like seventeen years old"
Em
Woh oh oh oh woh
G
Oh oh oh oh woh
N.C.
It's us against the world
Instrumental:
D Em G
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G -------|-----------|-------|-----------|
D -2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|-2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|
A -------|---------2-|-------|---------2-|
E -------|-----------|-------|-----------|
Verse:
D Em G
I thought her lips tasted like salvation
D Em G
That bench seat was an easy place to fall
D Em
Us drowning out the noise and passing
G
Back and forth that poison
D Em G
Sure beat feeling nothing much at all
Em
Woh oh oh oh oh
G
Oh oh oh oh oh
Chorus:
Bm A D/F# G
Living in a lonely world's enough to make you crazy
Bm A D/F# G
So we held on like we were speeding toward a bitter end
Bm A D G
I mighta been a lost boy then, but all it took to save me
Bm
From the man I coulda been
G A D
Was that girl's love and a Chevy S10
D Em G
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B -------|-----------|-------|-----------|
G -------|-----------|-------|-----------|
D -2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|-2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|
A -------|---------2-|-------|---------2-|
E -------|-----------|-------|-----------|
Verse:
D Em G
She told me when she turned eighteen, she's leaving
D Em G
For some place where there's more to do than fail
D Em G
She lit that fire in me, if not for her, I'd be
D Em G
Dead or in Montgomery County jail
Chorus:
Bm A D/F# G
Living in a lonely world's enough to make you crazy
Bm A D G
So we held on like we were speeding toward a bitter end
Bm7 A D G
I mighta been a lost boy then, but all it took to save me
Bm
From the man I coulda been
G A D
Was that girl's love and a Chevy S10
Em7
Woh oh oh oh oh (woh oh oh oh oh)
Bm7 A
Woh oh oh oh oh oh oh
G
Oh oh oh oh oh (oh oh oh oh oh)
A
Woh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Chorus]
Bm A D G
I mighta been a lost boy then, but all it took to save me
Bm
From the man I coulda been
G
Was that girls love
G A D
Was that girl's love and a Chevy S10
Outro:
D Em G G D Em G
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G -------|-----------|-------|-----------|-------|--------------|
D -2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|-2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0---|-2h4-2-|-2h4-2-0----0-|
A -------|---------2-|-------|---------2-|-------|---------2----|
E -------|-----------|-------|-----------|-------|--------------|
Song History
Published: January 16, 2025
Last Updated: September 10, 2025