Key: B major•
Intro 1
E
B
E
F#sus4
F#
E
B
F#
B
E
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F#sus4
F#
E
B
F#
B
Verse 1
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B
Only Only way I learn
I'm afraid of my own shadow
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F#
Not the bridge around the turn
Verse 2
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B
Well I lost myself and found myself
E
B
While you were kissin' ass
F#
B
Just to let me pass
Verse 3
E
B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
E
B
Singin' till the end
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B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
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F#
You and me and your best friend
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B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
B
G#m
I'm gonna go down swingin' with everything
F#
B
I have
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B
E
F#sus4
F#
E
B
Verse 4
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B
Sometimes I am a predator
E
B
Prowlin' for my life
Other times I am a field mouse
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F#
Running for the sides
E
B
Of the biggest, flattest corn field
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B
Bigger than my Indiana home
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B
And I leave my tiny bones
Verse 5
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B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
E
B
Singin' till the end
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B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
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F#
Like the Duke recommends
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B
I'm gonna go down swingin'
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B
For the bleachers in left field
G#m
F#
B
I'm gonna go down swingin' like a blade of steel
Interlude 1
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B
E
F#sus4
F#
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F#
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E
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F#sus4
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B
F#
B
Verse 6
scarin' nothin'
E
B
Trumpet player in the barn
And he's puffin' both
his cheeks out
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F#
And he's liftin' both his arms
Verse 7
E
B
As he blows his notes to heaven
E
B
As the preacher dunks you in
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B
The air is sweet as sin
Verse 8
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B
I wanna go down singin'
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B
Hallelujah Gabriel
E
B
I wanna go down singin'
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F#
Oh, you play the blues so well
E
B
I wanna go down swingin'
E
B
Three sheets to the wind
F#
B
punch drunk to the end
Outro 1
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F#
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F#
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E
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E
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B F#sus4 F# G#m
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