Intro
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F# B C#
[Verse 1]
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Five guys in a station wagon barely held together
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By a long string of honky tonks tonight and till forever
C# B F# C#
Tarp on top keeps the rain off a pile of guitars
C# B F#
Well, we got fourteen hours till we?re hitting? Albuquerque
C# B F#
Floorboards covered up with tater chips and jerky
C# B F# C#
But the tanks full, red bull is keeping? us a buzzin? so far
B
Just when we?re thinkin? we can?t take it no more
[Chorus]
F# B
When the lights go down and we hit the first chord
C#
The girls start movin? cross the dance floor
F# B
Well it sounds real good and feels even better
C#
Rememberin? why we?re out here together
F# B C#
Forget we?re tired, forget the miles, look at us man, look at these smiles
D#m B F# C#
Hey, we work 22 hours a day, for two hours of play
[Solo]
F# B C# B
[Verse 2]
C# B F#
Last night we tore it up down in Tucson, Arizona
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Everybody loved us but the dang club owner
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He shorted us three hundred bucks we were fighting? mad, hell
C# B F#
But we found enough bills in the tip jar to get us
C# B F#
To the next night in Waco and barely out of Texas
C# B F# C#
As bad as it gets, so far it ain?t gotten too bad
B
Just when we?re thinkin? we can?t take it no more
[Chorus]
F# B
When the lights go down and we hit the first chord
C#
The girls start movin? cross the dance floor
F# B
Well it sounds real good and feels even better
C#
Rememberin? why we?re out here together
F# B C#
Forget we?re tired, forget the miles, look at us man, look at these smiles
D#m B F# C#
Hey, we work 22 hours a day, for two hours of play
[Solo]
F# B C# (x2)
[Bridge]
D#m B F# C#
If we never make the big time, well me and my boys, will be just fine
[Chorus]
F# B
When the lights go down and we hit the first chord
C#
The girls start screaming? on the front row
F# B
Well it sounds real good and feels even better
C#
Rememberin? why we?re out here together
F# B C#
Forget we?re tired, forget the miles, look at us man, look at these smiles
D#m B F# C#
Hey, we work 22 hours a day, for two hours of play
F# B C#
Oh, two hours of play
F# B C# D