Aaron Lee Tasjan - 12 Bar Blues

      [Verse]
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.


[Chorus]
        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


[Verse]
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
   one of 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.


[Chorus]
        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


[Verse]
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 litte broken and it aint 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.


[Chorus]
        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


[Chorus]
        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