Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Intro:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Verse:
N.C. FF G+G C majorC
She dreams about it every night
FF G+G C majorC
She knows just how it’s going to be
FF G+G A minorAm
Flying down from out the right
FF G+G C majorC
On skates of bright and shining steel
Verse:
FF G+G C majorC
She keeps the book beneath her bed
FF G+G C majorC
A augmentedA flashlight there, that no one knows
FF G+G A minorAm
Looks at pictures from the Netherlands
FF G+G C majorC FF
She’ll be skating through the falling snow
Bridge:
FF
Then the morning comes
FF
And like a beating drum
C majorC FF
Her father pounds upon the door
DmDm
Her brother cries outside
DmDm
Her mother’s petrified
G+G
So drunk, he stumbles to the floor
Verse:
N.C. FF G+G C majorC
The sun glows like a welding torch
FF G+G C majorC
Can’t escape it on the Texas plain
FF G+G A minorAm
The old man stands there on the porch
FF G+G C majorC
Tells her, “Never look at me that way”
Instrumental:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC
C majorC FF G+G C majorC
C majorC FF G+G A minorAm
C majorC FF G+G C majorC FF
Bridge:
FF
The world will quiet down
FF
She’ll feel safe and sound
C majorC FF
Alone and curled up in her room
DmDm
All through the winter land
DmDm
Flashlight and book in hand
G+G
Where her reality resumes
Verse:
N.C. FF G+G C majorC
She dreams about it every night
FF G+G C majorC
She sets her sights and makes her plan
FF G+G A minorAm
One day she’ll live to escape her plight
FF G+G C majorC
And skate all the way to Amsterdam
Outro:
FF G+G A minorAm
One day she’ll live to escape her plight
FF G+G C majorC
And skate all the way to Amsterdam
FF G+G C majorC
Skate all the way to Amsterdam
FF G+G C majorC
She’ll skate all the way to Amsterdam
C majorC FF G+G C majorC
C majorC FF E minor 7Em7 C majorC