Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment Chords & Tabs

 

The Old Apartment Chords & Tabs

Barenaked Ladies Chords & Tabs

Version: 4 Type: Chords

The Old Apartment Chords

   
Everyone else was getting one chord wrong, I wondered why it sounded so funky. I only 
on the right answer while playing another Barenaked Ladies Song. Anytime someone says "C" 
"C9", they should have put in Am7.
Enjoy

Capo the 3rd Fret

G G        D D        Am7 Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G G        D D        Am7 Am7
This is where we used to live
G G        D D        Am7 Am7
Broken glass, broke and hungry
G G        D D        Am7 Am7
Broken hearts and broken bones
G G        D D        Am7 Am7
This is where we used to live

Em      D            Am7
Why did you paint the walls?
Em      D            Am7
Why did you clean the floor?
Em      D            Am7
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
G         D            Am7
This is where we used to live
G    D                Am7
Why did you keep the mousetrap?
       D               G
Why did you keep the dishrack?
G            D
these things used to be mine
Am7                                     D
I guess they still are, I want them back

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G G        D D       Am7 Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G G        D D       Am7 Am7
Forty-two stairs from the street
G G        D D       Am7 Am7
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
G G        D D       Am7 Am7
Narrow laneway filled with crooks
G G        D D       Am7 Am7
This is where we used to live


Em  D                 Am7
Why did they pave the lawn?
Em  D                 Am7
why did they change the locks?
Em  D                 Am7
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk
G       D                Am7
This is where we used to live
G      D             Am7
How is the neighbor downstairs?
    D             G
How is her temper this year?
          D               Am7                            D
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun


Em  D            Am7                G
I know we don't live here anymore
Em  D              Am7                   G
We bought an old house on the Danforth
Em  D                Am7                   G
She loves me and her body keeps me warm
D
I'm happy here
G G        D D               Am7 Am7
But this is where we used to live
G G        D D      Am7 Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G G        D D            Am7 Am7
Tore the phone out of the wall
G G        D D           Am7 Am7
Only memories, fading memories Blending into dull tableaux

G     D       Am7
I want them back
G     D       Am7
I want them back.  This is where we used live
G     D       Am7
I want them back.  This is where we used live
G     D       Am7
I want them back.  This is where we used live
G     D       Am7
I want them back