New Slang

Artist: The Shins
Title: New Slang

Intro: / Am - - - / - - - - /

     / Am - C - / F – C - / G – C - / Am – G - / (x4)

     / C - - - / - - walkdown - /

Am (x2) C F (x2)

Gold teeth and a curse for this town

     C                G (x2)

were all in my mouth.

    C                       F (x2)

Only, I don't know how

         Am    G

they got out, dear.

Am (x2) C F (x2)

Turn me back into the pet that

C                   G (x2)

I was when we met.

       C          F                 Am   G (x4)

I was happier then with no mind-set.

Chorus:

                G (x2)  C (x2)

And if you'd took to me like a F C G (x2)

Gull takes to the wind. G (x2) C (x2)

Well, I'd 'a jumped from my tree

   F       C                    F              C

And I'd a danced like the king of the eyesores

         F              C                   G (x4)

And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.

Am (x2) C F (x2) New slang when you notice the stripes,

    C                G (x2)

the dirt in your fries.

          C                       F (x2)

Hope it's right when you die,

          Am    G

old and bony.

Am (x2) C F (x2) Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,

 C                      G (x2)

Never should have called

        C                   F                 Am   G (x4)

But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely.

Chorus

Solo

Am (x2) C F (x2) God speed all the bakers at dawn

          C                G (x2)

may they all cut their thumbs,

            C             F                    Am   G (x4)

And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.

Chorus 2:

              G (x2)     C (x2)

I'm looking in on the good life I might

F C G (x2)

be doomed never to find.

             G (x2)             C (x2)

Without a trust or flaming fields am I

F C G (x2)

too dumb to refine?

                G (x2)  C (x2)

And if you'd took to me like F C F C

Well I'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores

          F              C                   G (x4)

And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.

Solo

/ Am - C - / F – C - / G – C - / Am – G - / (x2)

/ C (hold) /