Tonart: C major
Verse 1
C
Saw my mother slip on a new black dress
Am
A string of pearls around
her porcelain neck
C
Dm
F
Dm
And her hair done up in a French twist
Gsus4
I said to myself,
C
someday I'll look like this
G
C
Cocktails would begin at eight,
Am
but the neighbors will be fashionably late
C
Dm
And when they arrive,
Gsus4
well they better have by their side
G
C
I'd take my place behind the banister,
Csus2
Am
my chatty Cathy doll
And a stolen hors d 'oeuvre,
Dm
Gsus4
C
I was coming of age
Csus2
C
I heard the women talk
about raisin' kids
Am
And the men talk about
a better way to live
Dm
But both sexes ignored
Gsus4
the distant threat of a war
C
G
C
Csus2
So the 60s saw my rebelli ous side
C
Am
And my thumb went out and I caught a ride
C
Dm
I made my escape from Sub
Gsus4
G
C
F
urbia 58
C
Eb
Dm
Suburbia 58
G
C
We let our hair grow wild,
G
C
as did our souls
Csus2
C
Am
And we committed to gods
that we did not know
Dm
We marched into the night,
G
Gsus4
G
defending everyone's rights
to a Yankee barn
Am
While the mu sic played
And we slept under the stars
G
Gsus4
In the land of the free and the brave
G
C
Csus2
And all we owned we
Am
We read Rolling Stone
and put it back in the rack
Gsus4
G
C
Of suburbia 58
F
Suburbia
C
Oh, it seems so far away
D
Gsus4
Was it only yesterday?
G
C
Now I spend my nights in
a two -bedroom house
and divorce from a spouse
Gsus4
Along with most of my friends
G
C
So we raise our glass and
Csus2
C
we drink a toast
Am
To love and peace and
good old rock and roll
Dm
And the days that we spend
G
Gsus4
Losing our inno cence
C
Csus2
And time goes by and our
Am
While my mir ror reflects
my mother's face
Dm
And I lay awake in sub
Gsus4
G
urbia fifty -eight
C
G
F
C
Subur bia, oh it seemed so far away
D
Dm
G
Dm
G
was it only yesterday
C
Eb
D
G
Was it only yesterday?
F
C
Eb
Oh, Superiority
D
G
F
Oh, Superiority
Outro 1
Superiority
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