Intro: E (Eadd9) – Asus2 (Asus2add13) }4x
Verse 1:
E Asus2 (Asus2add13)
Jack & Diane painted a picture of my life and my dreams
E Asus2 (Asus2add13)
suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me
E B Asus2 (Asus2add13)
I heard it today and couldn’t help but sing along
F#m Bsus4 B
cause everytime I hear that song
Chorus:
E
I go back to a two tone short bed Chevy
A
Drivin my first love out to the levy
E A
Livin life with no sense of time
E
And I go back to the field of a fifty yard line
A
A blanket, a girl, some raspberry wine
E A
Wishin time would stop right in its tracks
F#m Bsus4 B
Everytime I hear that song,
E – A E – A
I go back, I go back
Verse 2:
E Asus2 (Asus2add13)
I use to rock all night long to keep on rockin my baby
E Asus2 (Asus2add13)
Frat parties, college bars just tryin to impress the ladies,
E B Asus2
I heard it today and couldn’t help but sing along
F#m Bsus4 B
cause everytime I hear that song
Chorus:
E
I go back to the smell of an old gym floor,
A
And the taste of salt on a Carolina shore,
E A
After graduation and drinkin goodbye to friends,
E
And I go back to watchin summer fade to fall,
A
Growin up to fast and I do recall,
E A
Wishin time would stop right in its tracks,
F#m Bsus4 B
Everytime I hear that song,
E – A E – A
I go back, I go back,
Bridge:
C#m A
We all, have a song that somehow stamped our lives,
F#m Bsus4 Bsus4 B – Bsus4 Bsus4 – B
Takes us to another place and time,
Chorus:
E
So I go back to the pew, Preacher and a chior,
Asus2
Singin about God, bimestone and fire,
E Asus2
And the smell of Sunday chicken after church,
E
And I go back to the loss of a real good friend,
Asus2
And the sixteen summers a sharin with him
E Asus2
Now “Only the good die young” stops me in my tracks,
F#m Bsus4 B
Everytime I hear that song,
E – Asus2 E – Asus2
I go back, I go back,
Ending:
E
To the field of a fifty yard line,
Asus2 E
A blanket, a girl, some raspberry wine,
Asus2
I go back, (I go back)
E
To watchin summer fade to fall,
Asus2 E
Growin up to fast and I do recall,
Asus2
I go back, (I go back)
E
To the loss of a real good friend,
Asus2 E
And the sixteen summers a sharin with him,
Asus2
I go back, (I go back)
