The Old Apartment Uke tab by Barenaked Ladies (Baritone Chords)

5 Chords used in the song: G, D, Cadd9, Em, C

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Year:  1996
Difficulty: 
3.5
(Intermediate)
Key: G, EmChords
Verse 1:

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Broke into the old apartment.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
This is where we used to live.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and
G baritone chordG
broken bones.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
This is where we used to live.

Refrain:

Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC
Why did you paint the walls?
Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC
Why did you clean the floor?
Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC D baritone chordD G baritone chordG
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
This is where we used to live.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 D baritone chordD G baritone chordG
Why did you keep the mousetrap, why did you keep the dishrack?
D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
These things used to be mine, I guess they still are,
D baritone chordD
I want 'm back.

Verse 2:

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Broke into the old apartment.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Forty-two stairs from the street.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 G baritone chordG
Crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow landway filled with crooks.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
This is where we used to live.

Refrain:

Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC
Why did they pave the lawn?
Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC
Why did they change the locks?
Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD C baritone chordC D baritone chordD G baritone chordG
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk.
D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
This is where we used to live.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 D baritone chordD G baritone chordG
How is the neighbor downstairs? How is her temper this year?
D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
I turned up your tv and stomped on the floor
D baritone chordD
just for fun.


Bridge:

Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD G baritone chordG C baritone chordC
I know we don't live here anymore.
C baritone chordC D baritone chordD G baritone chordG C baritone chordC
We bought an old house on the danforth.
Em baritone chordEm D baritone chordD G baritone chordG C baritone chordC
She loves me and her body keeps me warm;
C baritone chordC D baritone chordD G baritone chordG
(and) I'm happy here.

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
But this is where we used to live.


Verse 3:

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Broke into the old apartment.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
Tore the phone out of the wall.
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 G baritone chordG
Only memories, fading memories blending into dull tableaux.

D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD Cadd9 baritone chordCadd9 G baritone chordG
I want them back.

Uke tab by , 26 Sep 2012

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About this song: The Old Apartment

It's not a pop song. It's not written in your textbook hit song format. No, this great song speaks volumes of a typical relationship, and all of the memories tied into a space. It gives you a peak into the past, and shows where he's at in the present. But the great imagery and the flow of the song makes it latch onto your subconscious, and you find yourself repeating "I want them back"... Definitely reaches out to someone who has lived in an apartment or rooming house, whether in college or the real world.

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