Chords for Damn Yankees Rock Vault Interview
Tempo:
81.75 bpm
Chords used:
A
D
Bm
E
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey, hey you, hey you over there!
Hey, this is America.
I'm proud to be a damn Yankee and I'm proud to be Ted Nugent.
Full time!
And the way I see it, no matter what happens in life, turn up the volume!
See ya.
This is the easiest band I've ever been in.
[E] And I know a lot of it is our experience, a lot of it is our chemistry.
The fact that we all kind of, in our [A] own way, want the same thing.
And so we've got these, you know, [E] three guys who've been around [A] for a long time, and Michael Cardelloni who is right in there.
And Michael's [F#] got a great head for the right thing to do here.
And so we're all trying to do the right thing.
And rock and roll is a very tricky little devil, you [E] know.
To write a real simple song to be a [D] kick-ass band, [A] you've got to be careful not to get [D] caught up in all the
trying to make it perfect stuff and all the [F] flowery stuff that [G] is easy to get distracted with.
[A] Night Ranger broke up and the band [Bm] was on a decline.
And when we broke up, [E] I never thought that,
jeez, [Em] I've got to get in a band again that's going to sell [G] 10 million records again.
I never thought about it that way.
I just thought, man, I've [A] got to get in a band.
I'm either going to take six months off and go to Tahiti and just hang out, because I haven't had a break since [F#] 1981.
Because Night Ranger just toured and toured and toured.
So I thought either I was going to do that or I was going to get in something right away.
I [E] just wanted to be in another band, that's all, because I just want to play music.
I just want to rock and roll.
And [D] so [A] it wasn't even a thing of like, okay, now how am I going to be successful [F] again?
Or how am I going to get into something that's [G] really happening again?
[Dm] When Night Ranger [Am] broke up, my whole thought process [F] was, man, I want to play in a band again.
Who [A] do I want to be in?
I want to be with a bunch of guys that no one's going to ever think [D] that it's anything but a straight-ahead rock and roll [Bm] band.
Because with Night Ranger, [Em] we started out as this real rock and roll thing, real kick [G]-ass, with Don't Tell Me You Love Me and Rockin' [A] America.
And then we had [D] this ballad called Sister Christian that became a huge record [Bm] in the country and stuff.
It was kind of a two-edged sword.
[Em] From that point on, our record company would only allow us to release [G] ballads.
And then [A] people got the misconception [Bm] that Night Ranger was nothing but a ballad band.
[D] [A] And so I thought, [B] well, the next band I'm in, I want to make sure I'm in a band that no one will ever think it's anything but a rock and roll [A] band.
And who but [B] Ted, this maniac, [D] insane guitarist.
[A] With Ted in the band, nobody thinks it's [B] anything but a rock and roll band.
So just [D] working out just like that.
I'm a [A] hopeless optimist.
[E] When I had [C#m] the peak of my 70s career as a solo artist,
[F#m] and I'm using the word peak to [A] identify a time when the public [B] identified record [E] sales and awareness of my activities,
because [C#m] the peak of my solo career is [F#m] right now.
This is the peak of everything.
[B] And I mean that.
I really don't have [G] enough faith to tell you about that.
But no, things haven't changed.
I think [Bm] Rob Dillagrange and Cliff Davies and Derek [A] St.
Holmes were [B] dedicated to what we were doing at the time.
They're human beings.
[A] I'm a human being.
I made mistakes.
I relish [D] those mistakes as I hope they have relished those mistakes.
Because [Bm] then you can go on and hopefully not make them again.
[Em] I'm with a bunch of guys right now, Tommy Shaw, Jack Wave, [G] Michael Cardelloni, and the New Jolly.
We are dedicated to what we [D] do.
I didn't really audition for Damn Yankees.
I just [Bm] kind of was always there.
But the story for Tommy Shaw's solo band, I played with Tommy for [N] two and a half years before Damn Yankees formed.
And I was living in New York, and I heard through the grapevine that he was auditioning to put a band together.
So I went in against like 25 other guys.
And at the audition, [E] there was a song that I used a woodblock in.
I shattered the woodblock.
I broke the bottom head out of the snare drum.
Countless sticks, the Tom-Tom mount.
Guys were kind of scurrying underneath me.
And Tommy's looking at the drum set because [Dm] he had borrowed it from a friend of his thinking,
Now what am [B] I going to tell this guy?
Anyway, so I think that made me stand out a little bit.
I certainly have a lust for life that is rivaled by only meat-hungry hounds in the night.
One of them, I'm which.
But I dig it, man.
I mean, I'm alive.
I want to rock and roll, [F#] and I want to play with my kids.
And I want to run with the hounds, and I want to kill my own dinner.
And I want to hump my own swamp, and I want to change my own oil, and I want to cut my own heating wood.
I want to state my own piece in my magazine.
And I got my own camp for kids.
And I do have the Ted Nugent World Bowhunter Organization in publication that I write with my [G#] wife and my hunting buddies.
And I also write a bimonthly column for Off-Road magazine, like I need more to do.
And I also tour with the damn Yankees, and I also do my radio show in Detroit.
And I also am the national spokesman for the state police DARE program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, [D#] because I am so [E] good at that.
And I live it up, and I go to sleep about 11 o'clock every night, and I go
And I die like a wounded puppy with a brick through that cranium.
[Bm] Dick, [A] I think that's a different story, [Bm] because there's just, I think that's [D] something that's [A] irreparable.
[E] I don't know what it [Bm] is, but I think on their part, [C#m] they don't have any desire to have [F#m] any kind of relationship with me.
For me, [A] [E] I'm kind of sad about that, because I like, you know, it [C#m] was a big part of my life,
and I kind of have this natural tendency to want to go back and kind of [A] at least keep the relationship open.
But [G] [A] it's [G] kind of not up to me anymore.
[Bm] The best things in life, those damn miniskirts, for [A] example, those damn [B] high heels, those damn guitars, those [A] damn amplifiers, those [D] damn lights, those damn drummers,
those damn attitudes are all my favorite things.
[Bm] When we started jamming, we sounded like [E] a bunch of semi-Caucasian [Em] Motown street skers [D] slinging boogie [A]-woogie and honky-tonk at each other in [D] the night.
And we sounded very Americana.
It was [Bm] a time when we were in other countries protecting what I think [E] is right, standing up for what I think is right,
[G] trying to keep innocent people from [D] being harmed by people that were bad.
And those bad people were calling us [Bm] Yankees.
In fact, they were calling us damn Yankees.
And I [E] don't know about you, but I'm [Em] proud to be a [G] damn Yankee.
And that's what our music sounded like.
Tommy, Jack, [D] Michael, and I all agreed, so we are God Lovers.
Hey, this is America.
I'm proud to be a damn Yankee and I'm proud to be Ted Nugent.
Full time!
And the way I see it, no matter what happens in life, turn up the volume!
See ya.
This is the easiest band I've ever been in.
[E] And I know a lot of it is our experience, a lot of it is our chemistry.
The fact that we all kind of, in our [A] own way, want the same thing.
And so we've got these, you know, [E] three guys who've been around [A] for a long time, and Michael Cardelloni who is right in there.
And Michael's [F#] got a great head for the right thing to do here.
And so we're all trying to do the right thing.
And rock and roll is a very tricky little devil, you [E] know.
To write a real simple song to be a [D] kick-ass band, [A] you've got to be careful not to get [D] caught up in all the
trying to make it perfect stuff and all the [F] flowery stuff that [G] is easy to get distracted with.
[A] Night Ranger broke up and the band [Bm] was on a decline.
And when we broke up, [E] I never thought that,
jeez, [Em] I've got to get in a band again that's going to sell [G] 10 million records again.
I never thought about it that way.
I just thought, man, I've [A] got to get in a band.
I'm either going to take six months off and go to Tahiti and just hang out, because I haven't had a break since [F#] 1981.
Because Night Ranger just toured and toured and toured.
So I thought either I was going to do that or I was going to get in something right away.
I [E] just wanted to be in another band, that's all, because I just want to play music.
I just want to rock and roll.
And [D] so [A] it wasn't even a thing of like, okay, now how am I going to be successful [F] again?
Or how am I going to get into something that's [G] really happening again?
[Dm] When Night Ranger [Am] broke up, my whole thought process [F] was, man, I want to play in a band again.
Who [A] do I want to be in?
I want to be with a bunch of guys that no one's going to ever think [D] that it's anything but a straight-ahead rock and roll [Bm] band.
Because with Night Ranger, [Em] we started out as this real rock and roll thing, real kick [G]-ass, with Don't Tell Me You Love Me and Rockin' [A] America.
And then we had [D] this ballad called Sister Christian that became a huge record [Bm] in the country and stuff.
It was kind of a two-edged sword.
[Em] From that point on, our record company would only allow us to release [G] ballads.
And then [A] people got the misconception [Bm] that Night Ranger was nothing but a ballad band.
[D] [A] And so I thought, [B] well, the next band I'm in, I want to make sure I'm in a band that no one will ever think it's anything but a rock and roll [A] band.
And who but [B] Ted, this maniac, [D] insane guitarist.
[A] With Ted in the band, nobody thinks it's [B] anything but a rock and roll band.
So just [D] working out just like that.
I'm a [A] hopeless optimist.
[E] When I had [C#m] the peak of my 70s career as a solo artist,
[F#m] and I'm using the word peak to [A] identify a time when the public [B] identified record [E] sales and awareness of my activities,
because [C#m] the peak of my solo career is [F#m] right now.
This is the peak of everything.
[B] And I mean that.
I really don't have [G] enough faith to tell you about that.
But no, things haven't changed.
I think [Bm] Rob Dillagrange and Cliff Davies and Derek [A] St.
Holmes were [B] dedicated to what we were doing at the time.
They're human beings.
[A] I'm a human being.
I made mistakes.
I relish [D] those mistakes as I hope they have relished those mistakes.
Because [Bm] then you can go on and hopefully not make them again.
[Em] I'm with a bunch of guys right now, Tommy Shaw, Jack Wave, [G] Michael Cardelloni, and the New Jolly.
We are dedicated to what we [D] do.
I didn't really audition for Damn Yankees.
I just [Bm] kind of was always there.
But the story for Tommy Shaw's solo band, I played with Tommy for [N] two and a half years before Damn Yankees formed.
And I was living in New York, and I heard through the grapevine that he was auditioning to put a band together.
So I went in against like 25 other guys.
And at the audition, [E] there was a song that I used a woodblock in.
I shattered the woodblock.
I broke the bottom head out of the snare drum.
Countless sticks, the Tom-Tom mount.
Guys were kind of scurrying underneath me.
And Tommy's looking at the drum set because [Dm] he had borrowed it from a friend of his thinking,
Now what am [B] I going to tell this guy?
Anyway, so I think that made me stand out a little bit.
I certainly have a lust for life that is rivaled by only meat-hungry hounds in the night.
One of them, I'm which.
But I dig it, man.
I mean, I'm alive.
I want to rock and roll, [F#] and I want to play with my kids.
And I want to run with the hounds, and I want to kill my own dinner.
And I want to hump my own swamp, and I want to change my own oil, and I want to cut my own heating wood.
I want to state my own piece in my magazine.
And I got my own camp for kids.
And I do have the Ted Nugent World Bowhunter Organization in publication that I write with my [G#] wife and my hunting buddies.
And I also write a bimonthly column for Off-Road magazine, like I need more to do.
And I also tour with the damn Yankees, and I also do my radio show in Detroit.
And I also am the national spokesman for the state police DARE program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, [D#] because I am so [E] good at that.
And I live it up, and I go to sleep about 11 o'clock every night, and I go
And I die like a wounded puppy with a brick through that cranium.
[Bm] Dick, [A] I think that's a different story, [Bm] because there's just, I think that's [D] something that's [A] irreparable.
[E] I don't know what it [Bm] is, but I think on their part, [C#m] they don't have any desire to have [F#m] any kind of relationship with me.
For me, [A] [E] I'm kind of sad about that, because I like, you know, it [C#m] was a big part of my life,
and I kind of have this natural tendency to want to go back and kind of [A] at least keep the relationship open.
But [G] [A] it's [G] kind of not up to me anymore.
[Bm] The best things in life, those damn miniskirts, for [A] example, those damn [B] high heels, those damn guitars, those [A] damn amplifiers, those [D] damn lights, those damn drummers,
those damn attitudes are all my favorite things.
[Bm] When we started jamming, we sounded like [E] a bunch of semi-Caucasian [Em] Motown street skers [D] slinging boogie [A]-woogie and honky-tonk at each other in [D] the night.
And we sounded very Americana.
It was [Bm] a time when we were in other countries protecting what I think [E] is right, standing up for what I think is right,
[G] trying to keep innocent people from [D] being harmed by people that were bad.
And those bad people were calling us [Bm] Yankees.
In fact, they were calling us damn Yankees.
And I [E] don't know about you, but I'm [Em] proud to be a [G] damn Yankee.
And that's what our music sounded like.
Tommy, Jack, [D] Michael, and I all agreed, so we are God Lovers.
Key:
A
D
Bm
E
G
A
D
Bm
Hey, hey you, hey you over there!
Hey, this is America.
I'm proud to be a damn Yankee and I'm proud to be Ted Nugent.
Full time!
And the way I see it, no matter what happens in life, turn up the volume!
See ya. _
This is the easiest band I've ever been in.
[E] And I know a lot of it is our experience, a lot of it is our chemistry.
The fact that we all kind of, in our [A] own way, want the same thing.
And so we've got these, you know, [E] three guys who've been around [A] for a long time, and Michael Cardelloni who is right in there.
And Michael's [F#] got a great head for the right thing to do here.
And so we're all trying to do the right thing.
And rock and roll is a very tricky little devil, you [E] know.
To write a real simple song to be a [D] kick-ass band, [A] you've got to be careful not to get [D] caught up in all the
trying to make it perfect stuff and all the [F] flowery stuff that [G] is easy to get distracted with.
[A] Night Ranger broke up and the band [Bm] was on a decline.
And when we broke up, [E] I never thought that,
jeez, [Em] I've got to get in a band again that's going to sell [G] 10 million records again.
I never thought about it that way.
I just thought, man, I've [A] got to get in a band.
I'm either going to take six months off and go to Tahiti and just hang out, because I haven't had a break since [F#] 1981.
Because Night Ranger just toured and toured and toured.
So I thought either I was going to do that or I was going to get in something right away.
I [E] just wanted to be in another band, that's all, because I just want to play music.
I just want to rock and roll.
And [D] so [A] it wasn't even a thing of like, okay, now how am I going to be successful [F] again?
Or how am I going to get into something that's [G] really happening again? _
[Dm] When Night Ranger [Am] broke up, my whole thought process [F] was, man, I want to play in a band again.
Who [A] do I want to be in?
I want to be with a bunch of guys that no one's going to ever think [D] that it's anything but a straight-ahead rock and roll [Bm] band.
Because with Night Ranger, [Em] we started out as this real rock and roll thing, real kick [G]-ass, with Don't Tell Me You Love Me and Rockin' [A] America.
And then we had [D] this ballad called Sister Christian that became a huge record [Bm] in the country and stuff.
It was kind of a two-edged sword.
[Em] From that point on, our record company would only allow us to release [G] ballads.
And then [A] people got the misconception [Bm] that Night Ranger was nothing but a ballad band.
[D] _ [A] And so I thought, [B] well, the next band I'm in, I want to make sure I'm in a band that no one will ever think it's anything but a rock and roll [A] band.
And who but [B] Ted, this maniac, [D] insane guitarist.
[A] With Ted in the band, nobody thinks it's [B] anything but a rock and roll band.
So just [D] working out just like that.
I'm a [A] hopeless optimist.
[E] _ When I had [C#m] the peak of my 70s career as a solo artist,
[F#m] and I'm using the word peak to [A] identify a time when the public [B] identified record [E] sales and awareness of my activities,
because [C#m] the peak of my solo career is [F#m] right now.
This is the peak of everything.
[B] And I mean that.
I really don't have [G] enough faith to tell you about that.
But no, things haven't changed.
I think [Bm] Rob Dillagrange and Cliff Davies and Derek [A] St.
Holmes were [B] dedicated to what we were doing at the time.
They're human beings.
[A] I'm a human being.
I made mistakes.
I relish [D] those mistakes as I hope they have relished those mistakes.
Because [Bm] then you can go on and hopefully not make them again.
[Em] I'm with a bunch of guys right now, Tommy Shaw, Jack Wave, [G] Michael Cardelloni, and the New Jolly.
We are dedicated to what we [D] do.
I didn't really audition for Damn Yankees.
I just [Bm] kind of was always there.
But the story for Tommy Shaw's solo band, I played with Tommy for [N] two and a half years before Damn Yankees formed.
And I was living in New York, and I heard through the grapevine that he was auditioning to put a band together.
So I went in against like 25 other guys.
And at the audition, [E] there was a song that I used a woodblock in.
I shattered the woodblock.
I broke the bottom head out of the snare drum.
Countless sticks, the Tom-Tom mount.
Guys were kind of scurrying underneath me.
And Tommy's looking at the drum set because [Dm] he had borrowed it from a friend of his thinking,
Now what am [B] I going to tell this guy?
Anyway, so I think that made me stand out a little bit.
I certainly have a lust for life that is rivaled by only meat-hungry hounds in the night.
_ One of them, I'm which.
But I dig it, man.
I mean, I'm alive.
I want to rock and roll, [F#] and I want to play with my kids.
And I want to run with the hounds, and I want to kill my own dinner.
And I want to hump my own swamp, and I want to change my own oil, and I want to cut my own heating wood.
I want to state my own piece in my magazine.
And I got my own camp for kids.
And I do have the Ted Nugent World Bowhunter Organization in publication that I write with my [G#] wife and my hunting buddies.
And I also write a bimonthly column for Off-Road magazine, like I need more to do.
And I also tour with the damn Yankees, and I also do my radio show in Detroit.
And I also am the national spokesman for the state police DARE program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, [D#] because I am so [E] good at that.
And I live it up, and I go to sleep about 11 o'clock every night, and I go_
_ And I die like a wounded puppy with a brick through that cranium.
[Bm] _ Dick, [A] I think that's a different story, [Bm] because there's just, I think that's [D] something that's [A] irreparable. _
[E] I don't know what it [Bm] is, but I think on their part, [C#m] they don't have any desire to have [F#m] any kind of relationship with me.
For me, [A] _ _ [E] I'm kind of sad about that, because I like, you know, it [C#m] was a big part of my life,
and I kind of have this natural tendency to want to go back and kind of [A] at least keep the relationship open.
But [G] _ [A] it's [G] kind of not up to me anymore.
[Bm] The best things in life, those damn miniskirts, for [A] example, those damn [B] high heels, those damn guitars, those [A] damn amplifiers, those [D] damn lights, those damn drummers,
those damn attitudes are all my favorite things.
[Bm] When we started jamming, we sounded like [E] a bunch of semi-Caucasian [Em] Motown street skers [D] slinging boogie [A]-woogie and honky-tonk at each other in [D] the night.
And we sounded very Americana.
It was [Bm] a time when we were in other countries protecting what I think [E] is right, standing up for what I think is right,
[G] _ trying to keep innocent people from [D] being harmed by people that were bad.
And those bad people were calling us [Bm] Yankees.
In fact, they were calling us damn Yankees.
And I [E] don't know about you, but I'm [Em] proud to be a [G] damn Yankee.
And that's what our music sounded like.
Tommy, Jack, [D] Michael, and I all agreed, so we are God Lovers.
Hey, this is America.
I'm proud to be a damn Yankee and I'm proud to be Ted Nugent.
Full time!
And the way I see it, no matter what happens in life, turn up the volume!
See ya. _
This is the easiest band I've ever been in.
[E] And I know a lot of it is our experience, a lot of it is our chemistry.
The fact that we all kind of, in our [A] own way, want the same thing.
And so we've got these, you know, [E] three guys who've been around [A] for a long time, and Michael Cardelloni who is right in there.
And Michael's [F#] got a great head for the right thing to do here.
And so we're all trying to do the right thing.
And rock and roll is a very tricky little devil, you [E] know.
To write a real simple song to be a [D] kick-ass band, [A] you've got to be careful not to get [D] caught up in all the
trying to make it perfect stuff and all the [F] flowery stuff that [G] is easy to get distracted with.
[A] Night Ranger broke up and the band [Bm] was on a decline.
And when we broke up, [E] I never thought that,
jeez, [Em] I've got to get in a band again that's going to sell [G] 10 million records again.
I never thought about it that way.
I just thought, man, I've [A] got to get in a band.
I'm either going to take six months off and go to Tahiti and just hang out, because I haven't had a break since [F#] 1981.
Because Night Ranger just toured and toured and toured.
So I thought either I was going to do that or I was going to get in something right away.
I [E] just wanted to be in another band, that's all, because I just want to play music.
I just want to rock and roll.
And [D] so [A] it wasn't even a thing of like, okay, now how am I going to be successful [F] again?
Or how am I going to get into something that's [G] really happening again? _
[Dm] When Night Ranger [Am] broke up, my whole thought process [F] was, man, I want to play in a band again.
Who [A] do I want to be in?
I want to be with a bunch of guys that no one's going to ever think [D] that it's anything but a straight-ahead rock and roll [Bm] band.
Because with Night Ranger, [Em] we started out as this real rock and roll thing, real kick [G]-ass, with Don't Tell Me You Love Me and Rockin' [A] America.
And then we had [D] this ballad called Sister Christian that became a huge record [Bm] in the country and stuff.
It was kind of a two-edged sword.
[Em] From that point on, our record company would only allow us to release [G] ballads.
And then [A] people got the misconception [Bm] that Night Ranger was nothing but a ballad band.
[D] _ [A] And so I thought, [B] well, the next band I'm in, I want to make sure I'm in a band that no one will ever think it's anything but a rock and roll [A] band.
And who but [B] Ted, this maniac, [D] insane guitarist.
[A] With Ted in the band, nobody thinks it's [B] anything but a rock and roll band.
So just [D] working out just like that.
I'm a [A] hopeless optimist.
[E] _ When I had [C#m] the peak of my 70s career as a solo artist,
[F#m] and I'm using the word peak to [A] identify a time when the public [B] identified record [E] sales and awareness of my activities,
because [C#m] the peak of my solo career is [F#m] right now.
This is the peak of everything.
[B] And I mean that.
I really don't have [G] enough faith to tell you about that.
But no, things haven't changed.
I think [Bm] Rob Dillagrange and Cliff Davies and Derek [A] St.
Holmes were [B] dedicated to what we were doing at the time.
They're human beings.
[A] I'm a human being.
I made mistakes.
I relish [D] those mistakes as I hope they have relished those mistakes.
Because [Bm] then you can go on and hopefully not make them again.
[Em] I'm with a bunch of guys right now, Tommy Shaw, Jack Wave, [G] Michael Cardelloni, and the New Jolly.
We are dedicated to what we [D] do.
I didn't really audition for Damn Yankees.
I just [Bm] kind of was always there.
But the story for Tommy Shaw's solo band, I played with Tommy for [N] two and a half years before Damn Yankees formed.
And I was living in New York, and I heard through the grapevine that he was auditioning to put a band together.
So I went in against like 25 other guys.
And at the audition, [E] there was a song that I used a woodblock in.
I shattered the woodblock.
I broke the bottom head out of the snare drum.
Countless sticks, the Tom-Tom mount.
Guys were kind of scurrying underneath me.
And Tommy's looking at the drum set because [Dm] he had borrowed it from a friend of his thinking,
Now what am [B] I going to tell this guy?
Anyway, so I think that made me stand out a little bit.
I certainly have a lust for life that is rivaled by only meat-hungry hounds in the night.
_ One of them, I'm which.
But I dig it, man.
I mean, I'm alive.
I want to rock and roll, [F#] and I want to play with my kids.
And I want to run with the hounds, and I want to kill my own dinner.
And I want to hump my own swamp, and I want to change my own oil, and I want to cut my own heating wood.
I want to state my own piece in my magazine.
And I got my own camp for kids.
And I do have the Ted Nugent World Bowhunter Organization in publication that I write with my [G#] wife and my hunting buddies.
And I also write a bimonthly column for Off-Road magazine, like I need more to do.
And I also tour with the damn Yankees, and I also do my radio show in Detroit.
And I also am the national spokesman for the state police DARE program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, [D#] because I am so [E] good at that.
And I live it up, and I go to sleep about 11 o'clock every night, and I go_
_ And I die like a wounded puppy with a brick through that cranium.
[Bm] _ Dick, [A] I think that's a different story, [Bm] because there's just, I think that's [D] something that's [A] irreparable. _
[E] I don't know what it [Bm] is, but I think on their part, [C#m] they don't have any desire to have [F#m] any kind of relationship with me.
For me, [A] _ _ [E] I'm kind of sad about that, because I like, you know, it [C#m] was a big part of my life,
and I kind of have this natural tendency to want to go back and kind of [A] at least keep the relationship open.
But [G] _ [A] it's [G] kind of not up to me anymore.
[Bm] The best things in life, those damn miniskirts, for [A] example, those damn [B] high heels, those damn guitars, those [A] damn amplifiers, those [D] damn lights, those damn drummers,
those damn attitudes are all my favorite things.
[Bm] When we started jamming, we sounded like [E] a bunch of semi-Caucasian [Em] Motown street skers [D] slinging boogie [A]-woogie and honky-tonk at each other in [D] the night.
And we sounded very Americana.
It was [Bm] a time when we were in other countries protecting what I think [E] is right, standing up for what I think is right,
[G] _ trying to keep innocent people from [D] being harmed by people that were bad.
And those bad people were calling us [Bm] Yankees.
In fact, they were calling us damn Yankees.
And I [E] don't know about you, but I'm [Em] proud to be a [G] damn Yankee.
And that's what our music sounded like.
Tommy, Jack, [D] Michael, and I all agreed, so we are God Lovers.