Hangin On The The Good Times

Intro: F Bb/F F/A Bb Csus4 F/A Bb F/A Bb Csus4 C7sus4 F C/F Bb/F

        F     F/A Bb       C                Dm
Hey old friend,       it's been such a long time
C       F           F/A  Bb            C                F    C F
Since I saw your smilin' face pressed against my window pane
C          F             C
It was the middle of the night
F C         F              F/A      Bb
And we were racin' the light of the mornin'
C         Bb           C
All those new thoughts dawnin'
Bb C         Dm7           C
   About the wrong and the right
F C            F        C
  We spent our money so fine
F C              F                  F/A
  The girls were standing in line
Bb          C
Every other night
    Bb         C
Was always the same
Gm7   F/Bb  C/Bb   C       F/C  C  Bb
Paradise    with-  out any shame


F/Bb Gm/C Bb/C Bb     F     Bb
We'd      stay up all night
F/Bb   Gm/C  Bb/C  Bb        F          Bb
Tryin'   to   find just the right rhymes
F/Bb Gm/C Bb/C Bb           F          Gm7
  And we were  fightin' the good fight
F/G Gm/Bb Bb     Dm7       C     F
         Hangin' on to the good times


(repeat chords throughout song)


Jaunita she's a little bit older now
Spotcheck Billy looks just the same
Three card monte on the boulevard
With mirrors on his shoes

And I just have to laugh
When I recall the time down in New Orleans
Don't ya know
Rained us out of an indoor show
We spent our money so fine
The girls were standin' in line
Down in the quarters at lucky Pierre's
A time of our life without any cares

We'd stay up all night
Tryin' to find just the right rhymes
And we were fightin' the good fight
Hangin' on to the good times

Yes old friend we had some times
And later on the moon declined
To shine its light so benevolently
It's grace withheld from our company
and though we went our own ways
We couldn't escape from where we came
So we find ourselves back at the table again
Tellin' stories of survivors and friends

We'd stay up all night
Tryin' to find just the right rhymes
And we were fightin' the good fight
Hangin' on to the good times