Key: E
Introduction:
Eb C# Eb F# Eb C# Eb F#
All right, peep hole!
We're gonna have a rock 'n' roll party tonight! ... Here we go!
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I been thinking about you
C# Ab/C Ab
I been meaning to tell you
Eb
Sit down with me let's have a drink
Verse
Ab Eb/G Bb Eb
Back when the war ended your great grandfather handwrote
Ab Eb Bb Eb
Letters of apology to all of those
Ab Eb/G Bb Ab
Families of the men who crewed that U-boat
Ab Eb Bb Eb
Haunted 'til his death by that long night off the coast
Ab Eb/G Bb Eb
Your other great-granddad came back from Arnhem
Ab Eb Bb Eb
Transformed into a damaged and violent man
Ab Eb/G Bb Ab
Never spoke of the slaughter he witnessed firsthand
Ab Eb Bb
This is the world I brought you into man
C# Ab/C C#
All remorse, no rebel
C# Ab/C Ab
Shell of my former shell
C# Ab F# Eb Bb
Sit down with me let's have a drink
Bridge
Eb/G Ab
What have we here?
Eb Bb Ab
The dreaded failed imagineer?
Eb Bb Eb/G Ab
His private dismay on public display
Eb Bb Ab
Son, do not be alarmed by your old man's tears
C Ab C F
"Hey, old man, it's ok. Every dog has his day."
Ab Eb/G Bb Eb
Sit down with me let's have a drink
C# Ab/C C#
I been thinking about you
C# Ab/C Ab
I been meaning to tell you
C# Ab F# Eb
Sit down with me let's have a drink