People Get Old

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Lead guitar is below (capo 1). 2nd gu
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  itarist is capo 6 (D  G F#m Em)
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[Intro]
G C C/B Am    2x

[Verse 1]
 G                  C         C/B
Someone said "Youth is wasted on 
      Am
the young"
          G                   C   
I spilled every last drop of time 
      C/B          Am
that summer in the sun
Am C/B  C                 G
    My daddy had a Timex watch
     D                       Em
Cigarette in his hand and a mouthful
 of scotch
 G                       
Spinnin' me around like a 
  C      C/B         Am
tilt-a-whirl on his arm

[Chorus 1]
             C                  
Houses need paint, winters bring 
  C/B
snow
              Am                   
Kids, come on in before your supper
       G
 gets cold
             C               
Collection plates and daddy's 
      C/B
billfold
                   Am
And that's how it goes
                D                G
You live long enough, people get old

[Post-Chorus]
C C/B Am
G C C/B Am

[Verse 2]
   G              C              
I sat up right beside him in the 
C/B       Am
cab of that truck
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        G                        
Goin' thirty miles-an-hour down a 
  C         C/B               Am
side road talkin' 'bout the fish we 
caught
        C                      G
And I'm older now than he was then
            D                  Em
If I could go back in time, I would 
in a second
        G                      
To his beat-up blue jeans and a 
  C                C/B   Am
t-shirt with the sleeves cut off

[Chorus 2]
             C                  
Houses need paint, winters bring 
  C/B
snow
              Am                   
Kids growin' up and seekin' out the
  G
 window
                C             C/B
Hittin' every small-town dirt road
                   Am
And that's how it goes
                D                  
You live long enough, and people 
  C  C/B Am G
get old
                  C  C/B Am
Yeah, people get old

[Verse 3]
Am C/B C                  
      Daddy keeps busy in the 
     C/B               Am       G
aftenoons playin' cards by himself
         C                     C/B
And he shouldn't be shovelin' that
                       Am
 first snow, but you know he won't 
take the help
          C                       
Full of pride and love, he don't 
C/B              Am            G
say too much but hell, he never did
     C                    C/B     
And you still think he's 
       Am
forty-five and he still thinks that 
you're a kid

[Verse 4]
     G                        C   
One day you'll find yourself 
            C/B       Am
sayin' the things that he said
            G                      
You'll be walkin' down the hallway,
  C         C/B     Am
 turnin' off every light switch
           C                    
When you twirl your kids in your 
 G
arms
             D                   
Before you know it, it won't take 
  Em
too long
            G                    C
They'll be runnin' off makin' a 
         C/B Am
life just like you did

[Chorus 3]
             C                  
Houses need paint, winters bring 
  C/B
snow
               Am                  
Nothin' says "love" like a band of 
 G
gold
            C                 C/B
Babies grow up and houses get sold
                   Am
And that's how it goes
            C              C/B
Time is a thief, pain is a gift
                 Am                
The past is the past, it is what it
 G
 is
       C                       
Every line on your face tells a 
   C/B            Am
story somebody knows
                    D
That's just how it goes
               Em                  
You live long enough and the people
      D
 you love... get old

[Otro]
G C C/B Am
G C C/B Am