Intro: E B A [x3] B F#m E
E
When all is said and done
F#m
We're not the only ones
E
Who look at life this way
F#m
That's what the old folks say
B
But every time I'd see them
A
Makes me wish I had a gun
B
If I thought that I was crazy
A
Well I guess I'd have more fun
E D A
Guess I'd have more fun
Break: E D A
G#m C#m
The catcher in the rye again
G#m A
Won't let you get away from him
F#m E
It's just another day like today
F#m G#m A
You decide 'cause I don't have to
F#m G#m A
Then they will find and I won't ask you
F#m G#m A
At anytime or long hereafter
F#m G#m A
If the cold's outside as I'm imagining
F#m G#m A F#m G#m A
It .... to be
G#m
E G#m C#m A [x2]
Na na na na...
Solo: E G#m C#m A [x2]
(2x)
E D A
G#m C#m
The catcher in the rye again
G#m A
Won't let you get away from him
F#m E
It's just another day like today
E
When all is said and done
F#m
We're not the only ones
E
Who look at life this way
F#m
That's what the young folks say
E
And if they'd ever change
F#m
That's not who am I to say
B
But every time I'd see them
A
Makes me wish I had a gun
B
If I thought that I was crazy
A
Well I guess I'd have more fun
E
'Cause what used to be's not there for me
A F#m
And ought to find someone that belongs insane like I do
E G#m C#m A [x2]
Na na na na...
E
On an ordinary day
G#m
Not in an ordinary way
C#m
All at once the song I heard
A
No longer wouldn't play
E
For anybody
G#m
Or anyone
C#m
That needed comfort from somebody
A
Needed comfort from someone
E
Who cared
G#m
To be
C#m
Not like you
A
And unlike me
E
And then the voices ran away
G#m
From me
C#m
So now you set the wheels in motion
A
It haunts our memories
E
You were the instrument
G#m
You were the one
C#m
How a body took a body
A
And gave that boy a gun
E
You took our innocence
G#m
Beyond our stares
C#m
Sometimes the only thing you got at all
A
When no one else is there
E G#m C#m A
Ah ah ah ah...
E [for 3 bars]
F#m
