Chords used
DmCF* AmFC/GE|-1---x---x---x---1---x-|
B|-3---1---1---1---1---1-|
G|-2---0---2---2---2---0-|
D|-0---2---3---2---3---2-|
A|-x---3---3---0---3---3-|
E|-x---x---x-------1---3-|
NB - you can replace the C chords for C/G (see above), whichever you prefer
The whole song is just |Dm |C |F* |Am |F |F |F |F |
Intro: Dm C F* Am F x2
DmC
The night's coming alive outside
F* AmF
And there's me and my guitar and Kentucky rye, uh huh
DmC
Maybe I should join the escapade
F* AmF
Instead of staring down at this egg white page, uh huh
DmC
I could take a stool at the palace bar
F* AmF
Flirt a little while with the bartender, uh huh
DmC
I swear to god, she knows my name
F* AmF
She refuses to use it, to her we're all the same, uh huh
DmC
I could buy a drink for a pretty girl
F* AmF
Those young ones are always off shooting pool, uh huh
DmC
Oh, listen to me, Mr. Peter Pan
F* AmF
Them girls live in Never Never Land, uh huh, huh huh
DmC
I'm better off with a girl my age
F* AmF
A spinster or a divorcée, uh huh
DmAm
Well here I am, a divorcée too
F* AmF
With a potbelly and a jagged tooth, uh huh
DmC
I patrol the bars with my gut sucked in
F* AmF
Trying to find my next victim, uh huh, uh huh
DmC
It's the ugliest men think they can always do better
F* AmF
They've been hypnotized by the magazine covers, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
DmC
I could saddle up with the town floozy
F* AmF
And maybe she'd be thinking the same about me, uh huh, huh huh
DmC
We can march down Central Avenue
F* AmF
A telltale parade for self-inflated youth, uh huh, uh huh
DmC
In bed we can share emotional scars
F* AmF
Your dead-eyed dad, my awol mom, uh huh
DmC
It doesn't matter if you're quick or not
F* AmAmAm
It's a competition of who gets who off
DmCF* AmF
Uh huh
Break: Dm C F* Am F
DmC
The night's coming alive outside
F* AmF
As I scribble down these senseless rhymes, uh huh
DmC
My life is full of melody
F* AmF
But rarely ever harmony, uh huh
DmC
So here I am, a desperate man
F* AmF
At 2 am with this tune in my head, uh huh
DmC
I don't need another foolish fling
F* Am
As long as I got a song
DmCF* AmF
Uh huh
DmCF* AmF
Uh huh
Dm
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
CF* AmF
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
DmCF* AmF
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh