Chords
The Night Before

Key: F

Introduction:

 F7M   G/B     F7M   G/B     F7M   G/B     C     F7M 
Verse
                 G/B                         F7M 
Sitting up on the roof
           G/B                                       F7M 
Sneaking a smoke by the chimney
                 G/B                                         C                   F7M 
Checking out the moon and the city lights
                           G/B                                       F7M 
He takes off his flannel shirt and
                     G/B                                         F7M 
He drapes it around her shoulders
             G/B                                           C 
Slides up behind her and holds on tight
                           Am7             C/G                                     F7M 
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#     F7M 
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
                                                                 F7M   G/B     F7M   G/B     F7M   G/B     C 
The night before life goes on
Verse
         F7M     G4                             F7M 
Ooh, a tear falls off her cheek
             G4                                               F7M 
Right when it hits his arm he says
                 G4             C                               F7M 
"Come on baby, lets get out of here"
                       G4                                                 F7M 
They take one last drive around town and
               G4                                     F7M 
Man it already looks different
                           G4                   C                                 Am7 
He bangs the wheel and says, "Life ain't fair
                                     C/G                                         F7M 
"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#     F9M 
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#     F7M 
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
But here it is they don't have long
                                                                 G/B   F7M   G/B   F7M 
The night before life goes on
 G/B       C               F7M             G/B                 F7M  G/B     F7M  G/B     C 
Yeah, yeah,       yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah