I Drink Chords

KeyD Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays498

I Drink by Bill Chambers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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 (C) He'd get home at 5:30,  
 fix a drink, And sit down in his (F) chair, 
 (G) pick a fight with mama,   
 complain about the kids getting in his (C) hair. 
 At night he'd sit alone and smoke 
 I'd see his frown behind the lighters (F) flame 
 Now that (G) same frown's in my mirror 
 I got my daddy's blood inside my (C) veins 
 
 CHORUS 
 Fish (C) swim;   
 birds (F) fly;   
 daddy's (G) yell;   
 mamas (C) cry  
 old men, sit and think (F); 
 (G) I (C) drink 
 
 (C) Chicken TV dinner 
 6 minutes on defrost, 3 on (F) high 
 (G) a beer to wash it down with 
 then another, some whiskey on the (C) side 
 It's not so bad alone here 
 it don't bother me that every nights the (F) same 
 I don't (G) need another lover 
 hanging round, trying to make me (C) change 
 
 CHORUS 
 Fish (C) swim;   
 birds (F) fly;   
 lovers (G) leave;   
 by and (C) by; 
 old men, sit and think (F); 
 (G) I (C) drink 
 
 BRIDGE 
 And I (Em)know;  
 What I (F) am;  
 But I (Em) don't; 
 Give a (G) damn 
 
 CHORUS 
 Fish (C) swim;   
 birds (F) fly;   
 daddy's (G) yell;   
 mamas (C) cry  
 old men, sit and think (F); 
 (G) I (C) drink 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante