G
B
Em
There's only one bar in this town I get drunk at,
C
D
still I have open tabs at two.
G
B
Em
I dated the waitress at the third bar I'm thinking of,
A
D
and there's four bars in this town I can't even go into.
G
B
Em
My friend Kenny used to tend bar at the fifth one,
C
D
still tends bar at the sixth one too.
G
B
Em
The seventh bar on this block has a kick-ass jukebox,
A
D
the eighth one will let you smoke inside after two.
G
B
Em
I've sung songs in about nine bars in east Nashville, Tennessee,
C
D
but I know I've been to at least ten.
G
B
Em
I'll always go back to good ol' eleventh street bar in New York City,
A
D
when the twelve bar blues has got me down again.
G
B
Em
I got, twelve bar blues,
C
D
G
too many bars to choose.
G
B
Em
Well I will drink tonight,
A
D
G
and get me feeling alright
G
B
Em
How many roads must a man walk down,
C
D
to find an affordable bar in the city of Los Angeles
G
B
Em
Or even more so to find some affordable company,
A
D
seems you have to pay for the conversation there in one way or another
even if you're not directly involved.
G
B
Em
You're always overhearing that story about the one that got away,
C
D
or the movie script that one is writing that's gonna change everything.
G
B
Em
Feel like if writing stuff down really changed anything,
A
D
a lot more people would know who Philip Levine is.
G
B
Em
He was an American poet laureate,
C
D
Wonder why my teachers forgot to tell me about him in school,
G
B
Em
probably 'cause his poems got bad words in them.
A
D
Talk about board of education, American style.
G
B
Em
I got, twelve bar blues,
C
D
G
too many bars to choose.
G
B
Em
Well I will drink tonight,
A
D
G
and get me feeling alright
G
B
Em
So hang some taxidermy up on the wall, mute the TV.
C
D
That pool table over there gives out every other game for free.
G
B
Em
Don't tell anybody though, the manager doesn't know anything about it.
A
That's kind of the way it is at our bar,
D
it's a little broken and it ain't that great
G
B
Em
but hell man, it's ours.
C
One time this guy came into our bar,
D
G
B
sang karaoke style Hootie and the Blowfish.
Em
We had to ask that guy to leave.
C
D
Not cause we don't like Hootie though.
G
B
Em
Hell man, I hear Hootie is an alright guy.
C
So Hootie this beer is for you my friend,
D
shine on you crazy diamond.
G
B
Em
Don't let the bastards get you down,
A
D
hold my hand, I only wanna be with you.
G
B
Em
I got, twelve bar blues,
C
D
G
too many bars to choose.
G
B
Em
Well I will drink tonight,
A
D
G
and get me feeling alright
G
B
Em
I got, twelve bar blues,
C
D
G
too many bars to choose.
G
B
Em
Well I will sleep tonight,
A
D
G
and get me feeling alright