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Key: C
🎸 Intro:
C F Am G
🎸 Verse 1:
C
Took a few years to get here brother
F
Greens are greener in the heat of summer
Am G C
Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug
C
Graham and Lucas are having kids while
F
Steve’s busy raising his
Am G C
While I climb out a hole I never dug
C
Likely there’s a spot twenty minutes or so
F
Used to get waisted ridin’ rodeo
Am G C
Now it’s all mechanical Bull
🎸 Chorus:
F
Are the old ways dead?
C
Or livin’ in my head
G
There’s a smile on a photo
F Am
Catchin’ dust In your old A-part-ment
F
Are the old ways dead?
C
Or livin’ in my head?
G Am
It’s all veneer and up from here
F
So take a rest
🎸 Instrumental:
F C G
F Am
🎸 Verse 2:
C
So I’ll set off runnin’ like I said i’s gonna
F Am
And find another rodeo I’m a mechanical bull
G C
Throw a quarter and watch me go
C
And I get a little sad in the evenins' Knowin’ I’ll
F
never get a beatin’
Am G C
Like being young and dumb again in this life’s long rodeo
C
Maybe I’ll move to Texas
F
Let my soul grow bored and restless
Am G C
And learn to rope and ride like Le Gros
C
Maybe I’ll learn the mando-and
F
to pick a banjo too
Am G C
Ride all night on the highways like Two-Show
🎸 Chorus: (One strum)
F
Are the old ways dead?
C
Or livin’ in my head
G
There’s a smile on a photo
F Am
Catchin’ dust In your old A-part-ment
F
Are the old ways dead?
C
Or livin’ in my head?
G F
It’s all veneer and up from here
Am
So take a rest
🎸 Instrumental:
F C
🎸 Bridge:
G F
It’s all veneer and up from here
Am
So take a rest
G F
It’s all veneer and up from here
Am
So take a rest
🎸 Outro:
C
Took a few years to get here brother
F
Greens are greener in the heat of summer
Am G C
Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug
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Published: July 15, 2024
Last Updated: January 20, 2026