Chords for John Gorka "People My Age"

[N] This is [B] turning into a regular length set, so uh,
I was gonna do a shorter set and then take a break and do a longer set, but
it's gonna [A] be about the same length, so uh_ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [B] Can you sleep?
Oh, that's nice.
Well, I'll take a little bit of [F] a break,
you might need [B] a break, I won't.
But, uh, I [C] come to play, you know, I don't come to take breaks.
[Ab] Let me, let, you may [Bb] need a break after this one, though.
_
[Gb] I tried to do [Eb] this song for you, [Ab] to you. [Eb] _
[Ab] Until now, [E] and I will again [Eb] after this.
I used to end sets,
I used to end [C] sets with this song, but I found [Bb] I would lose people.
[Em] _
_ [B] So_
_ _ _
This is a [Db] song, I [C] was hoping to write a song about aging [Eb] gracefully.
[Em] _ [E] _
It's a [Bb] nice idea, huh?
[Eb] _
But I [Bb] wanted it to be non-fiction.
_ [F] [A] _
And [Bb] autobiographical. _ _
[C] _ [B] _
Got so well stuck at this song, instead, uh, it's called People My [Em] Age.
[B] People My Age.
[Db] And I do mention Scrapple [Ab] in this song.
[Db] I don't know how many, I [B] figured it'd be kind of a gourmet audience,
so they'd know what Scrapple [F] was.
But for the non-gourmet types, this is something I learned about in [Abm] Pennsylvania.
Uh, uh, [Ab] Scrapple is a [B] pork-based [Bb] breakfast meat.
_ _ [C] Not a lot of meat involved.
[Bb] [Gb] _
Pig [B] farts, there's a lot of pig [Bm] farts in this.
_ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] _ _
_ It's kind of like Spam, but not the heat, but_ [Db] _ _
[Eb] I [B] live in Minnesota now, where they make [A] Spam.
I'll tell you [C] about that someday.
[Db] You need to go to the Spam [B] Museum.
_
You really have to go to lunch destination.
[Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _
There's some Spam [B] aficionados here.
_ They've been.
_ The Spam, I'll explain a little bit.
[Eb] When you go into the Spam [B] Museum,
[Bb] there's a whole great wall of Spam.
It [Gb] represents the number [Abm] of [Db] cans of Spam [Eb] made every minute.
[Db] And it's [Bb] very, uh,
[E] _ _ [Eb] it's very_
[B] well, the hush kind of comes over. _
[Eb]
And [Abm] from then on, it's a self-guided [A] tour.
_ [B] _
_ [Db] _ _
There's the [B] films, and [Db] there's the interactive area,
[Cm] and all the exhibits with [A] knowledgeable [Db] guides.
I learned that Spam stays fresh in the can
[Eb] for seven years.
_ [A] [B] _ _
There's lots of different kinds of Spam.
The [Ab] people who [Db] work [Bm] there
[Db] at the Spam Museum
[C] call [B] themselves [A] Spam baddies.
_ [B] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [Bm] _
I'm not kidding.
_ I'm not kidding.
They [Gb] say it with a straight face.
[B] _
Seriously.
[Bm] Okay,
[B] there's more Spam in this song, though.
This one's crap.
_ _ Oh, People My [Cm] Age.
_ [Bm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ People my age.
People my age.
They're starting to look gross. _
I [Bm] cannot say all,
and I shouldn't [Gb] say most.
I've seen them
in the [Bm] grocery.
I've [E] seen them up close.
_ People [Bm] my age.
[Gb] They're [Bm] starting
to look gross.
_ [B] _ [Bm]
_ _
_ [Gb] _ [B] _ _ _ People [Bm] my age.
Are showing somewhere.
There's holes
where their teeth was
and their [Gb] heads are gone there.
Their [B] brains are shrinking.
[A] Faces sinking in [Em] the fire.
_ And as for [B] the mirror,
we won't be looking [Bm] into that. _ _
_
_ [Gb] _ [B] _ _ _ People my [Bm] age.
Have started looking gross.
_ Maybe not in Colorado [Gb] from Silicon _
Back _ in Pennsylvania.
[Bm] I eat scrap of mom's toast.
_ Those
were my first [Gb] steps
on the road [Bm] to looking gross. _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [B] _
I had it really hard
not to make any jokes.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[B] _
People my age.
I work in the war right. _
Still looking
for the elaborations
to tighten up [Gb] what ain't tight.
What [Bm] gravity's ruined
[A] to try to [E] fix with a knife.
What's [B] pleasant
in the [Gb] darkness
is plain [B] scary in the fire.
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Bm] _
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_ [B] _ _ [E] _ [Gb] _ _ [A] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _