People Get Old chords by Lori McKenna
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Intro 1
(G major) (C major) (G major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (A minor)
Verse 1
(G major) Someone said,
"Youth (C major) is wasted (G major) on the (A minor) young"
I spilled (G major) every last drop of time (C major) that
sum (G major) mer in the sun (A minor)
My (C major) daddy had a (G major) Timex watch
Cigarette (D major) in his hand
and a mouth (E minor) ful of scotch
Spin (G major) nin' me around like a (C major) a
a tilt-a-whirl (G major) on his arm (A minor)
Houses need (C major) paint, winters bring
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Verse 2
(G major) snow
Kids, come on (A minor) in before your
supper gets (G major) cold
Collection plates (C major) and daddy's bill (G major) fold
And that's how it goes (A minor)
You live long (D major) enough,
(G major) people get old
(C major) (G major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (A minor)
Verse 3
I (G major) sat up right beside (C major) him in the
(G major) cabin of that (A minor) truck
Goin' thirty (G major) miles-an-hour down down down a
(C major) side road (G major) talkin' 'bout the (A minor) fish we caught
And I'm older (C major) now than he was (G major) then
If I could (D major) go back in time,
I (E minor) would in a second
To his (G major) beat-up blue blue jeans and a
(C major) t-shirt with with the (G major) sleeves (A minor) cut off
Verse 4
Houses need (C major) paint, winters bring (G major) snow
Kids growin' (A minor) up and seekin'
out the (G major) window
Hittin' every (C major) small-town dirt dirt road
(G major) And that's how it goes (A minor)
You live long (D major) enough and people
get (C major) old (G major) (A minor)
(G major) Yeah, people get (C major) old (G major) (A minor)
Verse 5
(C major) Daddy keeps busy in the (G major) aftenoons
play (A minor) in' cards by himsel (G major) f
And he (C major) shouldn't be shovelin' that (G major) first snow,
but you know (A minor) he won't take the help
Full of pride (C major) and love,
he don't (G major) say too much but hell, (A minor) he never did (G major)
And (C major) you still think he's (G major) forty-five and and
(A minor) he still thinks that you're a kid
Verse 6
One day (G major) you'll find yourself say
(C major) in' the thing (G major) s that he said (A minor)
You'll be walk (G major) in' down the hallway,
(C major) turnin' off (G major) every light (A minor) switch
When you twirl (C major) your kids in your arm (G major) s
Before you (D major) know it,
it won't take too (E minor) long
They'll be (G major) runnin' off makin'
a life (C major) just like (G major) you (A minor) did
Verse 7
Houses need (C major) paint,
winters bring (G major) snow
Nothin' says (A minor) "love"
like a band of (G major) gold
Babies grow (C major) up and houses get (G major) sold
And that's how it (A minor) goes
Time is a thief, (C major) pain is a gift
(G major) The past is the pas (A minor) t,
it is what it (G major) is
Every line (C major) on your face tells a
(G major) story somebody (A minor) knows
That's just how it goes (D major)
You live long (E minor) enough and (A minor) the people you love (D major)
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People Get Old
Lori McKenna
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