| A |
If it | seems like I’ve been lost in let’s remember |
If you think I’m feeling older and missing my younger days
| D |
Oh, then you | should have known me much better |
Cause my past is something that never
| A |
Still I | would not be here now if I never had the hunger |
And I’m not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends
| D |
Cause I | never felt the desire till their music set me on fire |
| E6 | D |
And then I was | saved, | yeah |
| E6 |
That’s why I’m keeping the | faith |
Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of chinos
| D |
I | put on my shark skin jacket |
You know the kind with the velvet collar
I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-Sen
My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave
| D |
Combed my | hair in a pompadour |
Like the rest of the Romeos wore
| E6 | D |
A permanent | wave | yeah |
| E6 |
We were keeping the | faith |
| E | D | A |
You can | get just so | much from a | good thing |
| E | D | A |
You can | linger too | long in your | dreams |
| E | D | A |
Say | goodbye to the | oldies but | goodies |
| Bm7 |
Cause the | good old days weren’t always good |
| E7 |
And | tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems |
A |
Learned stickball as a formal education |
Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose O.K.
| D |
I | heard about sex but not enough |
| A |
I found you could dance and still look tough any | way |
I found out a man ain’t just being macho
Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food drank a lot of take-home pay
| D |
I | thought I was the Duke of Earl |
When I made it with a red-haired girl
| E6 |
We were keeping the | faith |
| E | D | A |
You can | get just so | much from a | good thing |
| E | D | A |
You can | linger too | long in your | dreams |
| E | D | A |
Say | goodbye to the | oldies but | goodies |
| Bm7 |
Cause the | good old days weren’t always good |
| E7 |
And | tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems |
| E | D | A |
You can | get just so | much from a | good thing |
| E | D | A |
You can | linger too | long in your | dreams |
| E | D | A |
Say | goodbye to the | oldies but | goodies |
| Bm7 |
Cause the | good old days weren’t always good |
| E7 |
And | tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems |
| A |
Now I | told you my reasons for the whole revival |
Now I’m going outside to have an
Ice cold beer in the shade
| D |
I’m going to | listen to my 45’s |
Ain’t it wonderful to be alive
When the rock 'n' roll
| E6 | D |
When the memory | stays, | yeah |