Daughtry – 18 Years
226 bpm 4/4 Strumming [Baptized 2013]
Intro
C C G G Am Am F F
Verse 1 (Play Softly)
C C G G
Sit down with an old friend…
Am Am F F
like time had never stopped…
C C G G
from the cradle to the coffin…
Am Am F F
We drink until we drop…
Verse 2
C C G G
Yea we grew up on the same street small town under the hill…
Am Am F F
Yea-aaa-aah…
C C
but dreams get lost and buried down
G G
deep inside the soil there…
Am Am F F
Yea-aaa-aah…
Pre Chorus 1 (Play Softly)
C C G G
All day… All night… Keep pressing rewind…
Am Am F F
All day… All night… I remem-mmm-ber…
C C G G
All day… All night… Keep pressing rewind…
Am Am F F
All day… All night… I remem-mmm-ber…
Chorus
* C (C) * G (G)
We were young… We were wild… We were halfway free…
* Am (Am) * F (F)
We were kids-sss on the run-nnn on a dead-ddd-end street…
* C (C) * G (G)
Looking back in my rear-rrr-view mir-rrr-ror…
* Am (Am) * F (F)
You know the view used to be-eee much clea-aaa-rer…
* C (C)
but we laugh and we cry-yyy ‘til
* G (G)
there’s no-ooo more tears…
* Am (Am) * F (F)
Yea tonight-ttt can we just-ttt hold on-nnn to those eighteen
* C (C) * G (G) * Am (Am) * F (F)
year-sss… Eighteen years-sss-sss… Yeah-hhh…
Verse 3
C C G G
Some ran down the highway…
Am Am F F
to chase away their ghosts…
C C G G
Some frozen in the same place…
Am Am F F
This town inside their bones…
Verse 4
C C G G
Remember throwing T-V’s off the overpass onto the tracks…
Am Am F F
Yea-aaa-aah…
C C
but the trains roll on through the
G G
small towns and never look back…
Am Am F F
Yea-aah…
Pre Chorus 2
C C G G
All day… All night… Keep pressing rewind…
Am Am F F
All day… All night… I remem-mmm-ber…
C C G G
All day… All night… Keep pressing rewind…
Am Am F F
All day tell me do you remem-mmm-ber…
Chorus
C C G G
We were young… We were wild… We were halfway free…
Am Am F F
We were kids-sss on the run-nnn on a dead-ddd-end street…
C C G G
Looking back in my rear-rrr-view mir-rrr-ror…
Am Am F F
You know the view used to be-eee much clea-aaa-rer…
C C G G
but we laugh and we cry-yyy ‘til there’s no-ooo more tears…
Am Am F F
Yea tonight-ttt can we just-ttt hold on-nnn to those eighteen
C C G G Am Am F F
year-sss… Eighteen years-sss-sss-sss… Yeah-hhh…
Bridge
C C G
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON…
G Am Am F F
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… Those eighteen
C C G
years-sss…
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON…
G Am Am F F
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… Eighteen
* C (C) G) (G) (Am) (Am)(F) (F)
years-sss… Eigh-hhh-teen year-sss… Yeah-hhh-hhh…
Refrain (Play Softly)
C C G G
We were young… We were wild… We were halfway free…
Am Am F F
We were kids-sss on the run-nnn on a dead-ddd-end street…
C C G G
We were buil-lll-ding a bridge… out of bro-ooo-ken dreams…
Am Am
We were cra-aaa-shing like ca-aaa-rs
* F. * F. (F)
and we were eigh-teen…
Outro
C C G G
We were young… We were wild… We were halfway free…
Am Am F F
We were kids-sss on the run-nnn on a dead-ddd-end street…
C C G G
Looking back in my rear-rrr-view mir-rrr-ror…
Am Am F F
You know the view used to be-eee much clea-aaa-rer…
C C G G
but we laugh and we cry-yyy ‘til there’s no-ooo more tears…
Am Am F F
Yea tonight-ttt can we just-ttt hold on-nnn to those eighteen
C C G G
year-sss…
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON…
Am Am F F
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… Oh yeah-hhh… those eighteen
C C G G
years-sss…
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON…
Am Am F F * C
CAN WE JUST-TTT HOLD ON… Oh-hhh… those eighteen years-sss…