Fast Horses chords by Violent Femmes

Key: G

🎸 Intro:

G



🎸 Verse 1:
G           C     G
There’s something that I
I can’t say
Am                Am7 N.C. G
Something that guys don’t like to hear anyway
   Em
It’s not that I don’t love you
  C       G
And it’s not that I can’t cry
     Em              C               G   N.C.
‘Cause I wanna cry
I love you when I think that everything and everyone I love will die

🎸 Chorus:
C  G
Fast horses
C         G
Racing around the track
       Em    D
Although the course is slow
          C
Win, place, or show
N.C.          G Em G
Everything in life must go

🎸 Verse 2:
G           C      G
There’s something John Lennon never wrote
Am                  N.C.      G
Tell me what you hear when you listen closely to the notes
Em               C                 G
He never sang a beautiful song, not like Frank or what’s his name
Elton John
   Em       C          G
Some crazy Christian killed him, the poor bloke
N.C.
But he was running with some

🎸 Chorus:
C  G
Fast horses
C         G
Racing around the track
       Em    D
Although the course is slow
          C
Win, place, or show
N.C.          G
Everything in life must go

🎸 Bridge:
Em     C
Stand, stand, stand up for me
Em                D          G
‘Cause I will stand
I will stand up up up up up for you

Guitar 🎸 Solo:
C G Am  G

🎸 Verse 3:
G              C              G
There’s something I think I lost and I might need to recover
   Am                N.C.     G
There’s nothing that stand-up guys won’t do for each other
   Em
They tore down the bar, and I totalled the car
    C         G
You can have a drink to futility
       C              G      D N.C.
You’re not as bad as you think and you are beautiful to me

🎸 Chorus:
          C  G
And you can be like fast horses
C                 G
Racing, ripping, running down the track
        Em    D
Of course, the course is slow
          C
Win, place, or show
N.C.         G
Even the loser should know

🎸 Chorus:
       C     G
That he was a fast, fast horse
      C                    G
And he was racing, wrecking, and raggin’ round the track
        Em    D
Of course, the course is slow
          C
Win, place, or show
N.C.          G C G
Everything in life must go
C            G
Everything in life must go
C            G
Everything in life must go
C            G
Everything in life must go
C            G
Everything in life must go

🎸 Outro:
C  G
Fast horses
C  G
Fast horses
C  G
Fast horses
C  G
Fast horses
C  G N.C.
Fast horses