First Night Chords

Artist: The Hold Steady
Song: First Night
Standard Tuning
Tabbed by: Johan Persson
 
[Intro]
Em  C  G  D x3
Em  C  D
 
[Verse]
G           Am            C        G
Charlemagne shakes in the streets
G            Am           C        D
Gideon makes love to the suites
     Em7           Am
and Holly's not invincible
    F                 C
in fact she's in the hospital
    Em             C           D
not far from that bar where we met
        Em         C      G     D
on that first night
 
[Instrumental]
Em  C  G  D x2
Em  C  D
 
[Verse]
G                  Am            C     G
Charlemagne pulls street corner scams
     G             Am                C            D
and Gideon's got a pipe made from a Pringles can
 Em        Am           F             C
Holly's insatiable, she still looks incredible
        Em                   C           D
But she don't look like that same girl we met
        Em           C
on that first night
              G           D               Em  C  G  D
when she was golden with floorlight and beer
        Em           C
on that first night
     G                D          Em     C D
she slept like she'd never been scared
 
[Solo]
G  Am  C  G
G  Am  C  D
Em  Am  F  C
Em  C  D
 
[Verse]
         Em         C
And then last night
           G           D             Em       C  G  D
She said "Words alone never could save us."
         Em         C
And then last night
     G             D             Em  C  D
She cried and she told us about Jesus
Em           Am
Holly's inconsolable
F                 C
Unhinged and uncontrollable
           Em           C         D
'Cause we can't get as high as we got    
 
[On that first night] x5
D   Em   C x3
D   Em         C                   D
       Boys and girls in America
 
[Verse]
                             Em
Don't bother talking to the guys
           C        D
with their hot soft eyes
                  Em     C     D
you know they're already taken
                               Em           C          D
Don't even speak to all those sequencer and beats boys
 
[Outro]
           Em            C             D
when they kiss they spit white noise (White Noise) x7
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