Chords for John Mellencamp - Minutes to Memories (Live at Farm Aid 2008)

_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Thank you very [C] much.
Thank you.
[E] _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Thank you for coming to farming tonight.
We appreciate it very much _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
Well when this song was written I was
32 [G] years old and I thought man.
I'm really getting old.
I better get this thought down while I'm
This song means something completely different to me today than it did when it was written
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ On a [G] greyhound 30 miles beyond Jamestown
[E] You [G] saw the Sun set on Tennessee [E] land
_ [G] Look at the young man who's riding deciding
_ He said I'm [D] old kind of worn [G] outside _
[E] _ [G] _ _ [A] I'm _ _ [G] worn outside. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ I
Worked my whole life in the steel mills near Gary my father before [G] me.
I help build this land _
_ Now 77 [A] and with God as my witness [G] I earned every dollar [D] that passed through my hands
[Am] My family and friends [G] are the best things I've [A] known
Through the eye of the needle.
I'm [G] gonna carry _ home
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ There's turn the [G] minutes and minutes to memories
_ [Am] _ Last weeks away the [G] dreams that we planned
You [C] _ are [G]
young and you are the future [Am] and suck it up tough it [D] out and be _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ The best you can _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ The rain hit the old [G] dog in the twilight slash claiming
He said son.
It [A] sounds like rattling old bones
_ [G] His highways long, but I know some little longer
My son of tomorrow, [E] I guess I'll be home
_ [G] _ Through the hills of Kentucky [A] cross the Ohio River
[G] The old man kept talking [A] about his life in his times
_ [G] And then he fell asleep with [D] his head against the window
_ [G] He told me an honest [A] man's pillow is his peace of mind
_ [Am] This world offers [G] riches and riches for wings
And [Am] I don't take [G] stock in those uncertain things _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ There's turn the [G] minutes and minutes to memories _
[Am] Life's away the dreams we planned _ _
[C] You are [G] young and you are the future
[Am] So suck it up and tough it out and [D] be _ _ _
_ _ [G] The best you can
_ [D] _
_ [C] _ I hope you [G] can be the best you can _
[D] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well the old man [D] he [C] was hot _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _
[C] awfully high priced
_ [G] _ When I think back [Em] of him in the bus ride
_ [D] Now that I'm older
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] Now that we're getting a little older
[C] _ _ _ [G] I think maybe we can [A] see some light
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ It's another hot one [A] out on highway 11
_ [G] It's my life it's what [D] I've chosen you
_ _ [G] There's no free rides [A] no one said it'd be easy
[G] The old man told me this [A] my son I'm telling it to [G] you _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ There's turn the minutes [G] and minutes to memories
_ [Am] _ Life's away [G] the dreams we planned
_ _ [C] You are young and you are the future
So suck it up and tough it out and be
_ _ _ [B] _
Suck it up and tough it out and be
_ The [Eb] best you [G] can
_ _ [C] _ _ Try to [G] be the best you can
_ [D] _ [C] I hope you all can be [G] the best you can
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [N] _