Eels – Mistakes Of My Youth chords ver. 2

Artist: The Eels
Album: The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Song: Mistakes of My Youth

There are two guitars in this song, The tab has been re arranged for one guitar.
If you are feeling ambitious, you can tune the top two strings up 1 1/2 steps, and strum, played with the base notes below.

INTRO           VERSE

-0-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-2--0-0-0-2-2------2-2-2-2--x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-

Otherwise just play these chords.

Chords used in this song:  

  C/G   B/G    G    Em/G    F#/G    D    C   Bm--x------x-----3-----0--------2-----x----x----2      --3------2-----2-----2--------0-----x----3----2--2------0-----0-----2--------0-----0----2----4--0------0-----0-----0--------0-----2----0----4--3------3-----3-----3--------3-----3----1----3--3------3-----3-----3--------3-----2----0----2


Style: In the intro and verse, pick the bass note and strum; for the chorus, just strum.


INTRO

C/G B/G G Em/G G G
G F#/G C/G D
G F#/G C/G D G


	  F#/G		C/GIn the waiting days ahead
       D			      G	I've got to to look back down the road
  F#/G			  C/G   D    GI know that it's not too late

	   F#/G		 C/GAll the stupid things I said
       D		     Gthe people I hurt and let down
	 F#/G		  C/G	  D	Cwell I hope that it's not my fate


	   D	    Bm	     C	      C	To keep defeating... my own self
           D	    Bm	    Cand keep repeating... yesterday


C/G	  Bm/G     G	       Em/GI can't keep defeating myself
C/G	  Bm/G    G	    C/G		  C/G	C/G	GI can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth


        F#/G	        C/GIn the dark of night I might
      D		         Gbe able to make myself think
	   F#/G		C/G   D	Gthat I'm still a younger man

	 F#/G			  C/GWhen the light of day shines down
	D	               Gthere's no way to get around it
      F#/G	     C/G	D	CI am not the younger man


	 D	    Bm	 C	C	I keep defeating... my own self
            D	     Bm	    Cand keep repeating... yesterday


C/G	  Bm/G     G	       Em/GI can't keep defeating myself
C/G	  Bm/G    G	   C/G		 C/G	C/G	CI can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth


	      D	        BmThe choice is mine for making
	 C	   Ca better road ahead
              D	              Bm				    The road that I've been taking
	           Cheading for a dead end

C/G	   Bm/G    G		C/G   C/G   C/GBut it's not too late to turn around

BRIDGE	G F#/G C/G D G F#/G C/G D G

       F#/G		C/GIn the final moments I
D			      G		hope that I know that I tried
    F#/G	 C/G	D	Cto do the best I could


	  D	    Bm	   C	  C	To stop defeating... my own self
           D	     Bm	    Cand stop repeating... yesterday


C/G	  Bm/G     G	       Em/GI can't keep defeating myself
C/G	  Bm/G    G	   C/G		  C/G	C/G	GI can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth


OUTRO
	
G F#/G C/G D	(Repeated and faded)