Happy Birthday, Johnny Chords by St. Vincent

_ [Bb] Remember one Christmas I gave you Jim Carroll
_ Intended it as a _ cautionary tale
[Gm] You said you saw yourself inside there
_ [Bb] Docketed like a [F] how-to manual
_ _ [Bb] Remember one summer we walked in Times Square
[Ab] I showed you the zombies with hundred inch stairs
[Gm] You took a pic, set your [G] hotel on fire
[F] We took the plane, took the bags to the train
[Eb] Happy birthday Johnny, [F] _
_ [D] wherever [Gm] you are _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ Happy [Eb] birthday Johnny, [F] _ _ wherever [Bb] you are _ _ _ _ _ _
Last time you called it was on New Year's Eve
You asked me for dough to get [Ab] something to eat
[Gm] Since we last spoke you live on the street
[F] Yeah, I wouldn't believe all the shit that you've seen
[Eb] Happy New Year Johnny, [F] _ [D] is it [Gm] 23? _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ Happy [Eb] New Year Johnny, [F] _ are there lights on the [Bb] _
trees? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] When _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] I said let me think and you yelled through your teeth
Accused me of acting like all royalty
_ [G] _ Always for show, no true charity
[Bb] You saw me on _ [F]
magazines and TV
But [Bb] they only knew the real version of me
Only [Bbm] you know [Ab] the secrets, the swamp and the fear
What [Gm]
happens of blood, our family _
[F] Annie, how could you do this to me?
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
[D] Of course [Gm] I blame me
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_ When [Eb] you get free Johnny _
[F] _ I hope you find [Bb] peace _
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