19 Somethin'

I saw Star

Wars at least eight times, had the (C#m)Pacman pattern (B)memorized

and (A)I've seen the stuff they put inside

(E)Stretch Armstrong.

(E)Well, I was Roger Staubach in (B)my back yard,

had a (C#m)shoe box full of baseball cards and a (A)couple of Evel Knieval scars on my right (E)arm.

(C#m)Well, I was a (B)kid when Elvis (F#m7)died

and my (A)mama cried.

(E)It was nineteen (B)seventy somethin',

(A)in the world that I grew up in;

(C#m)Farah Fawcett hairdo days,

(F#m)bell (G#m)bottoms and eighttrack tapes.

(E)And lookin' back now, (B)I can see me.

(A)Oh, man, did I look cheesey.

(F#m)And I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'.

(B7)Oh, it was nineteen seventy (E)somethin'.

(E)It was the dawning of a new decade.

(C#m)We got our first (B)microwave,

(A)Dad broke down and fin'lly shaved them old sideburns (E)off.

I took the stickers off of my (B)Rubik's Cube,

watched (C#m)M.

T. V.

all (B)afternoon and (A)my first love was Daisy Duke in them (E)cutoff jeans.

(C#m)A space shuttle fell out of the sky

and the whole world cried.

(E)It was nineteen (B)eighty somethin',

(A)in the world that I grew up in;

(C#m)skatin' rinks and black

TransAm's, (F#m)big (G#m)hair and parachute (B)pants.

(E)And lookin' back now, (B)I can see me.

(A)And oh, man, did I look cheesey.

(F#m)I wouldn't (C#m)trade those days for nothin'.

(B7)Oh, it was nineteen eighty (E)somethin'.

(A)Now I got a mortgage and an (E)S.

U. V., but all this (F#m)responsibility

makes me wish

sometimes

(E)somethin',

(E)nineteen seventy somethin'.