Permanent Record Chords

  			verse 1 
  C              Am            F                   G          
Took all of the beer bottles from the whole block in my red wagon 
  C                Am             F                          G          
Cross the highway, in the vacant lot, I got an orange knee-high 
    F           C  G 
Baseball cards 

  C                Am 
Maria broke the second-story window 
  F                     G 
With her head and the back of her hand 
 C                Am 
Dad wrapped it up in an old bedsheet 
 F                       G                       F     C  G  C 
And her husband stood around at the end of the block 


 
Dm                     G 
I saved every little thing 
  Em                  F 
'Cause it's hard to throw it all away 
Dm                      G 
It's all part of my permanent record 
 C                  F              G      C 
And I'm gonna go through it all someday 


verse 2 
   C                  Am 
Bought a transistor radio 
 F                  G 
For a dollar at Brandon's house 
C                       Am 
I took it apart then I put it back together 
 F               G               F            C  G 
In a spaceship made from a refrigerator box 

C               Am 
I made my own French horn 
  F                       G 
With a funnel and some garden hose 
C                     Am 
I left it out in the knee-high grass 
  F          G                   F     C  G  C 
Night fell, and I never saw it again 


 
Dm                     G 
I saved every little thing 
  Em                  F 
'Cause it's hard to throw it all away 
Dm                      G 
It's all part of my permanent record 
 C                  F              G      C 
And I'm gonna go through it all someday 


Bridge 

  G                       F     C 
Every little word is a dagger 
  G                       F      C 
Every single look is a diamond ring 
   G                      F     C 
Nothing can erase this moment 
      Am                     F 
It's all there is, it's everything 

C  F  G (x4) 


verse 3 
  C           Am 
Rode to my grandpa's funeral 
    F            G 
Backseat of a Pontiac Pinto 
 C                Am 
Big boy, with my aunt and my uncle 
 F              G             F         C  G 
Was the first time I wore a seat belt 

C                Am 
I loved a girl named Shannon 
 F                  G 
In my third grade class 
C                          Am 
I never told her that her hair was golden 
  F            G          F       C  G  C 
Then I moved away to California 


 
Dm                     G 
I saved every little thing 
  Em                  F 
'Cause it's hard to throw it all away 
Dm                      G 
It's all part of my permanent record 
 C                  F              G     
And I'm gonna go through it all someday 


Outro 
 C                  F              G 
And I'm gonna go through it all someday 
      C              F              G 
Yea, I'm gonna go through it all someday 
C     F      G   C 
   Someday