How Long Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

A

C

A

  CHow long have we known each other now? Five, ten years, and I

A

  Cguess we've changed, and we'd

A

  Crun into each other in the subterranean

  Dworld... With the extras in their fright wigs and fins

  Fon their way from funkhole to dugout... and

  Done night would keel over into another,

and there never would seem to be a day, and

  Fhey, you used to say you were polishing up on your survival tactics

  D(techinques) for the end of the world... and

C

  B♭you, you used to dig your beak into my ear and say "nothing"

F

  B♭like a secret...

  D  Gbass

  C  Fbass

  D  Gbass

  CHoFbassw long have we known each other now? Fifteen, twenty years maybe, and

C

  B♭certainly we've changed... and we'd

C

  B♭run into each other in the subterranean

  Dworld...

  CAnd before I knew you or before we met

oh yes, way before then I was

  Ditching in the cradle, making my way to the slime pits & the sludge traps

  Flooking for love... and

  Dall the bushy brats turned out from the western burgs

  Cminced in the powdermills, noctambulating around

  Dnowheresville

  Dand some were so desperate for sleep the only retreat was the

C

B♭

F

  B♭sad dormitory... yes, one would go for a rest (or a test?)

  D  Gbass

  C  Fbass

  D  Gbass

  CHoFbassw long have we known each other now? up to thirty years I guess, and

C

  B♭maybe we've changed... and

C

  B♭didn't we see each other in the subterranean

  Dworld?

  FYou, did you really have your headress? - Hmmm.... yes

I used to dress up

  Dlike a girl, and how did you ever make it back home? I... I...

  FI'd leave a trail of pearls. Did you ever see a doctor - or a priest?

  Doh yeah - a priest

  Ddo you remember the guy with the sign "the end is nigh"? That was

  Fme (do you remember what was written on the back?)

  D and

  FDo remember the guy with a boxful of wind? or maybe it was a cassette

  DI don't really... I don't know either - or was it me?

C

B♭

F

B♭

D

  FHow long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(forty years?)

D

  FHow long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(fifty years)

C

  B♭How long have we known each other now? I've never seen you in my life

(sixty, seventy, eighty three years)

C

  B♭I hope that we've changed... and

C

  B♭we've never seen each other in the subterranean