HISTORY BOOKS Chords The Gaslight Anthem
D: xx0232;
A: x02220;
G: 320003;
Bm: x24432;
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(VER)
 
Bm 
 
What’s that you  
A 
say?
 
I knew you  
G 
when?
 
You don’t  
A 
look too much
D 
Like my  
Bm 
friend 
 
 
Bm 
 
Those history  
A 
books
 
Filled up with  
G 
crooks
 
Stories  
A 
I don’t want to read again
G 
 
 
 
(PRE CHO)
 
 
I’ve  
A 
tried to li
Bm 
ve
 
One  
A 
thousand years from h
G 
ere 
 
 
A 
 
 
 
(CHO)
 
 
When I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
G 
It just brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of you  
G 
now
 
And when I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
G 
It just brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of you  
G 
now 
 
 
D 
 
G 
 
D 
 
 
 
(VER)
 
Bm 
 
I’m keeping  
A 
time
 
One day goes  
G 
by
 
I try to  
A 
live till the  
G 
next one  
Bm 
 
But these history  
A 
books
 
Full of haunted  
G 
looks
 
From people  
A 
I don’t  
G 
want to see again
 
 
 
(PRE CHO)
 
 
‘Cause I’ve  
A 
learned to  
Bm 
live
 
But they  
A 
try to hold me  
G 
here 
 
 
G 
 
A 
 
 
 
(CHO)
 
 
When I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
G 
It just brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of it  
G 
now
 
And when I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
G 
It just brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of you  
G 
now
 
 
 
(BRI)
 
 
You just re
D 
mind me of the
Bm 
Nights of smoke and  
G 
dirty 
 
jokes
D 
Darkened rooms with  
A 
lonely 
 
ghosts
 
And they were  
Bm 
beautiful some  
G 
time 
 
ago
 
But  
D 
time keeps  
A 
rollin’ us  
Bm 
on
 
(SOLO)
 
G 
 
Bm 
 
G 
Bm 
 
A 
 
G 
Bm 
 
A 
 
G 
 
(CHO)
 
 
When I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
G 
It just brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of you now  
G 
 
G 
 
And when I  
D 
thi-i-i-
A 
ink of it  
Bm 
now
 
It just  
G 
brings me  
D 
down
 
When I  
A 
think of you  
G 
now
 
 
 
(OUTRO)
 
 
You just remind me of the
 
Bm 
Nights of smoke and  
G 
dirty 
 
jokes
D 
Darkened rooms with  
A 
lonely 
 
ghosts
 
And they were  
Bm 
beautiful some  
G 
time 
 
ago
 
But  
D 
time keeps rollin’ us  
A 
on
 
Rollin’ us  
D 
on 
 
 
A 
 
Bm 
 
G 
 
Rollin’ us  
D 
on 
 
 
A 
 
Bm 
 
G 
 
Rollin’ us  
D 
on 
 
 
A 
 
Bm 
 
G 
 
Rollin’ us  
D 
on 
 
 
A 
 
Bm 
 
G 
 
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This is the title track for the album History Books by The Gaslight Anthem feat. Bruce Springsteen.
Song based on D scale and played with 4 chords.

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