Key: A minor
Verse 1
What is up?
Things sure are different
Five dollar hot dogs,
strange fancy beers,
young skinny boys with their pants
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Ab
young pretty girls who cov
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Fm
er up their hair,
bearded lumberjacks
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Gm
everywhere.
Nowadays things aren't
what they used to be.
you used to see.
This wasn't what the place was meant to be.
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F
Cm
I feel like I'm living in another century.
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Ab
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Not sure if it's a new or an old one.
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Maybe I'll move to that
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Fm
place on the shore.
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Bb
Fm
Not sure I can take this place anymore.
sound of the sea
that could really get to me
call me a nuisance
When I was a boy,
A jar of pickles cost a dollar and a half
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F
Now I see a jar for ten,
don't make me laugh
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Ab
What did you say?
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Ab
It's artisanal?
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Fm
What does that mean?
It's medicinal?
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Gm
When I was a young man
there were like three beers,
now there are breweries
Every bar I step into has another
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Fm
micro -brew.
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Ab
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Ab
Hearty lager, frothy ale,
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Eb
muddy brown or deadly pale.
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Maybe I should go down
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Bb
move in with my sister
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Fm
down in Florida.
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Bb
Sit in swelter in tropical heat
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All the people down there,
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they don't know how to eat
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F
Bb
An d what's with those kids
and the crazy things they wear?
with scarves on their hair
their prettiest part?
young man's heart
with hats and sunglasses
that sag below their asses
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F
ager's boxers
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Bbm
Maybe I'll stay with my
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Fm
son on Long Island
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Fm
There at least the streets are silent
on the guys with bushy beards
Every guy's a mix
want to call a hitman
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Like we used to do in the good old days
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There was nothing wrong
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Gm
F
Cm
Ab
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Gm
with the good old days
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Dm
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Am
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I'm too old to change,
don't tell me I'm not
I'll just sit here in my shady spot
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On my bench here by the park
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Where I've always left my mark
maybe I'll exchange a couple sneers
With the skinny kids with their
Smile at the Muslim girls
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Cm
and sweet young dears
Decide things aren't quite as bad as I feared
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won't, won't, won't
Forget about it
Outro 1
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Gm
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