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[Verse 1]
D             D              A                    A
Me and JB and Sonny, we grew up on the buddy plan
        A                    A
Weren't we some bad mothers, closer than brothers
      A                          D
Had a rocking little three-piece band
        G                          D
Yeah we wrote a lot of songs about women
        G                                 A
Then we tried to sing them pretty for the girls
        A                        A
Pushing everything we did to the limit
       G        -       A           D        D
Living right out on the edge of the world


[Verse 2]
  D                           D
I recall on summer night at a party
        A                             A
We were sophomores hanging out by the lake
      A                       A
I got off on some wine with a waitress
            A                             D
Sonny had a girlfriend that just couldn't wait
 G                   D
JB hooked up around midnight
        G                        A
With an ugly girl from up in the city
          A                        A
He downed every can of beer in the cooler
               G    -     A          D
Just trying to drink that poor thing pretty


[Chorus]
    Bm                 A
Hey me and the boys we made a lot of noise
        G                      D
And we, sang all our songs for free
   E                         E
We partied through college, acquired some knowledge
G                  A
Never did get a degree
D   -     A               Bm    -     F#m
We did it our way looking back on the good days
        G                   E
There's still not a lot I regret
G                D      A                       D      D
Nights I can't remember, friends I'll never forget


[Verse 3]
D                 D                A             A
I grew up and got married, took a job with the FPL
A                          A
Sonny's got a good life, a baby and a good wife
    A                       D
And everyday he carries the mail
 G                    D
JB is a cross-country trucker
       G                                 A
And he called last night from South Carolina
             A                     A
He said I've fallen in love with a waitress
       G    -   A            D       D
That I met at a Waffle House diner


[Bridge]
            C                     D
He said the years seem to roll on faster
          C                     D
Than they did back when we were kids
       C                        D
Man we need us a break from the grindstone
E                      A      A*
That's exactly what we did


[Verse 4]
   D                      D
We put in a phone call to Sonny
        A                    A
Then we stayed out all night long
   A                          A
We drank a few cold ones, and told a few old ones
    G      -     A            D
And sang another verse to the song


[Chorus]
     Bm                   A
Yeah we were the boys who made a lot of noise
        G                      D
And we, sang all our songs for free
   E                          E
We partied through college, acquired some knowledge
G                  A
Never did get a degree
D    -    A               Bm     -    F#m
We did it our way looking back on the good days
        G                   E
There's still not a lot I regret
             G                D      A                            D
There's some nights I can't remember, with friends I'll never forget
          G                D      A                            D
All those nights I can't remember, friends I'll never forget