Mistakes of My Youth EELS
Song: Mistakes of My Youth
There are two guitars in this song, The tab has been re arranged for one guitar.
If you are feeling ambitious, you can tune the top two strings up 1 1/2 steps, and strum, played with the base notes below.
INTRO VERSE
-0-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-2- -0-0-0-2-2------2-2-2-2- -x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x- -x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x- -x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x- -x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-
Otherwise just play these chords.
Chords used in this song:
C/G B/G G Em/G [cb]F#/G[/cb] D C Bm
--x------x-----3-----0--------2-----x----x----2 --3------2-----2-----2--------0-----x----3----2 --2------0-----0-----2--------0-----0----2----4 --0------0-----0-----0--------0-----2----0----4 --3------3-----3-----3--------3-----3----1----3 --3------3-----3-----3--------3-----2----0----2
Style: In the intro and verse, pick the bass note and strum; for the chorus, just strum.
INTRO
[C/G]G [cB/G]h]F#[G]/G[Em/G] [/cb] [G] C[G]/G D
G [cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D G
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G
In the waiting days ahead
I've go[D]t to to look back down the road[G]
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D G
I know that it's not too late
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G
All the stupid things I said
the peo[D]ple I hurt and let dow[G]n
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D C
well I hope that it's not my fate
To keep def[D]eating...[Bm] my own s[C]elf[C]
and keep re[D]peating..[Bm]. yester[C]day
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G C/G C/G C/G G
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G
In the dark of night I might
be abl[D]e to make myself th[G]ink
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D G
that I'm still a younger man
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G
When the light of day shines down
there's [D]no way to get around it[G]
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D C
I am not the younger man
I keep de[D]feating... [Bm]my ow[C]n self[C]
and keep rep[D]eating...[Bm] yester[C]day
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G C/G C/G C/G C
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
The choice is [D]mine for m[Bm]aking
a better [C]road ahead[C]
The road that [D]I've been taking[Bm]
heading for a dead [C]end
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G C/G C/G C/G
But it's not too late to turn around
BRIDGE G [cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D G [cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D G
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G
In the final moments I
[D]hope that I know that I tried[G]
[cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D C
to do the best I could
To stop de[D]feating...[Bm] my own[C] self[C]
and stop re[D]peating...[Bm] yester[C]day
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G [cb]Bm/G[/cb] G C/G C/G C/G G
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
OUTRO
G [cb]F#/G[/cb] C/G D (Repeated and faded)
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