Key: F
Introduction:
F7+ G/B F7+ G/B F7+ G/B C F7+
Verse
G/B F7+
Sitting up on the roof
G/B F7+
Sneaking a smoke by the chimney
G/B C F7+
Checking out the moon and the city lights
G/B F7+
He takes off his flannel shirt and
G/B F7+
He drapes it around her shoulders
G/B C
Slides up behind her and holds on tight
Am7 C/G F7+
And she says, "I don't want this night to end
Why does it have to end?"
G F C
Tomorrow she'll be rolling down I-10, Baton Rouge
G F
LSU, eighteen years in her rear view
G F C
He's got a Friday pay-check lined up down the block at Daddy's shop
G Am
It ain't much, but it's a job
C/G D/F# F7+
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
F7+ G/B F7+ G/B F7+ G/B C
The night before life goes on
Verse
F7+ G4 F7+
Ooh, a tear falls off her cheek
G4 F7+
Right when it hits his arm he says
G4 C F7+
"Come on baby, lets get out of here"
G4 F7+
They take one last drive around town and
G4 F7+
Man it already looks different
G4 C Am7
He bangs the wheel and says, "Life ain't fair
C/G F7+
"And this growing up stuff, man I don't know
"I just don't wanna let you go"
G F C
Tomorrow she'll be rolling down I-10, Baton Rouge
G F
LSU, eighteen years in her rear view
G F C
He's got a Friday pay-check lined up down the block at Daddy's shop
G Am
It ain't much, but it's a job
C/G D/F# F9+
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
C
The night before life goes on
Bridge
G/B
Yeah, that's what my momma told me
Bb
And just like those kids
F C
I didn't wanna listen to no one
G/B
Yeah, there's nothing you can do
Bb
There's nothing you can say
F9
And I know how it feels when love goes away
G F C
Tomorrow she'll be rolling down I-10, Baton Rouge
G F
LSU, eighteen years in her rear view
G F C
He's got a Friday pay-check lined up down the block at Daddy's shop
G Am
It ain't much, but it's a job
C/G D/F# F7+
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
But here it is they don't have long
G/B F7+ G/B F7+
The night before life goes on
G/B C F7+ G/B F7+ G/B F7+ G/B C
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah