Song: Barstool
Artist: Gary Jules
Album: Trading Snake Oil For Wolf Tickets
VERSE 1
G C G C
Old man on a barstool watching TV
G Am C G
He got up and came over to sit closer to me
G C G C
He said you look familiar to someone I knew
G Am C G
But when we were your age we were older than you
G C G C
Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
G Am C G
To us there was nothing but girls and machines
G C G C
Jimmy got married and I went to war
G Am C G
I still don’t know what we were doing it for
G C G C
But if you’ll buy me a drink, a turkey on ice
G Am C
Then I could give you some advice
CHORUS
G Am C
You just stay in the bar
G Am C
For as long as you can
Em G
Cuz as long as you’re drinking
Am C
You’ve got the world in your hand
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VERSE 2
G C G C
There’s no shame in hanging your world by a string
G Am C G
You know there’s no harm in not thinking a thing
G C G C
But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
G Am C G
Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
G C G C
If you trade me a drink for a story or two
G Am C
Then you’ll know what you need to do
CHORUS
G Am C
You just stay in the bar
G Am C
For as long as you can
Em G
No love is for sissies
Am C
It’s whiskey that makes you a man
SOLO
VERSE 3
G C G C
Now the old man got up Stumbled out in the street
G Am C G
Been drinking all day and left his bar tab to me
G C G C
I didn’t have the money to cover his bill
G Am C G
But I found me a man looked like me younger still
G C G C
And I said buy me a drink and I’ll tell you a tale
G Am C
About the old man who taught me so well
CHORUS
G Am C
He said, ‘Stay in the bar
G Am C
For as long as you can
Em G
Well I know you’re a friend
Am C
I can tell by the shakes in your hands
REPEAT CHORUS
G Am C
You just stay in the bar
G Am C
For as long as you dare
Em G
As long as you’re tipping
Am C
Then you’ve got a friend somewhere
