People Get Old chords - Lori McKenna ♬ How to Play

People Get Old chords

[Intro]
G C C/B Am    2x
 
[Verse 1]
 G                  C         C/B      Am
Someone said "Youth is wasted on the young"
          G                   C         C/B          Am
I spilled every last drop of time that summer in the sun
Am C/B  C                 G
    My daddy had a Timex watch
     D                       Em
Cigarette in his hand and a mouthful of scotch
 G                         C      C/B         Am
Spinnin' me around like a tilt-a-whirl on his arm
 
[Chorus 1]
             C                    C/B
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
              Am                          G
Kids, come on in before your supper gets cold
             C                     C/B
Collection plates and daddy's billfold
                   Am
And that's how it goes
                D                G

    hide ad ⨯
    

        

    



You live long enough, people get old
 
[Post-Chorus]
C C/B Am
G C C/B Am
 
[Verse 2]
   G              C              C/B       Am
I sat up right beside him in the cab of that truck
        G                          C         C/B               Am
Goin' thirty miles-an-hour down a side road talkin' 'bout the fish we caught
        C                      G
And I'm older now than he was then
            D                  Em
If I could go back in time, I would in a second
        G                        C                C/B   Am
To his beat-up blue jeans and a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off
 
[Chorus 2]
             C                    C/B
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
              Am                     G
Kids growin' up and seekin' out the window
                C             C/B
Hittin' every small-town dirt road
                   Am
And that's how it goes
                D                    C  C/B Am G
You live long enough, and people get old
                  C  C/B Am
Yeah, people get old
 
[Verse 3]
Am C/B C                       C/B               Am       G
      Daddy keeps busy in the aftenoons playin' cards by himself
         C                     C/B                       Am
And he shouldn't be shovelin' that first snow, but you know he won't take the help
          C                       C/B              Am            G
Full of pride and love, he don't say too much but hell, he never did
     C                    C/B            Am
And you still think he's forty-five and he still thinks that you're a kid
 
[Verse 4]
     G                        C               C/B       Am
One day you'll find yourself sayin' the things that he said
            G                        C         C/B     Am
You'll be walkin' down the hallway, turnin' off every light switch
           C                     G
When you twirl your kids in your arms
             D                     Em
Before you know it, it won't take too long
            G                    C         C/B Am
They'll be runnin' off makin' a life just like you did
 
[Chorus 3]
             C                    C/B
Houses need paint, winters bring snow
               Am                   G
Nothin' says "love" like a band of gold
            C                 C/B
Babies grow up and houses get sold
                   Am
And that's how it goes
            C              C/B
Time is a thief, pain is a gift
                 Am                 G
The past is the past, it is what it is
       C                          C/B            Am
Every line on your face tells a story somebody knows
                    D
That's just how it goes
               Em                        D
You live long enough and the people you love... get old
 
[Outro]
G C C/B Am
G C C/B Am