Biography:
Steve Forbert (born Samuel Stephen Forbert, December 13, 1954 in Meridian, Mississippi) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980. Forbert's tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time, was nominated for a 2004 Grammy in the best traditional folk category. In 2006, he was inducted into the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame.
Forbert signed a recording contract with Nemperor in 1978, and they released his debut album, Alive on Arrival, that same year.
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[Intro]
D
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G
third string: A-note, B-note
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
[Verse 1]
G D
A little girl is standing at your door on Halloween
Em A
The face of expectation and of trust in everything;
G D
A little boy has thrown some heavy stones into a pond
Em A
Dusting off his hands he's feeling proud of what he's done
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Verse 2]
G D
The trees turn into buildings and the weeks turn into months
Em A
It'??s one thing or another or it's everything at once;
G D
There's two sides to each story, yes and sometimes many more
Em A
And four bananas make a bunch and two times ten's a score
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Bridge]
G6 D
If we weren'??t in so much trouble I would say that things were fine
F#m Em
And smile as I went walking and just wave on down the line;
A Bm
If there weren'??t so many problems I would say that it'??s okay
Em Bm
And smile as I went walking and just wave on down the way
[Verse 3]
G D
Mothers hate war more in general than Joint Chiefs of Staff
Em A
Battleground statistics don'??t add up in schoolhouse math;
G D
The male of this here species lives for eighty years or so
Em A
Starts to see the mess he's made and then it'??s time to go
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Verse 4]
G D
It'??s often said that life is strange, but, hey, compared to what?
Em A
I asked this question years ago, it's still worth asking, but
G D
It all seems stranger now, I think, but that could be just me
Em A
And I've no all-time gauge of strange for objectivity
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A BM
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
G D
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
G D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
[Outro]
G D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
G D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
[Verse 1]
G D
A little girl is standing at your door on Halloween
Em A
The face of expectation and of trust in everything;
G D
A little boy has thrown some heavy stones into a pond
Em A
Dusting off his hands he's feeling proud of what he's done
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Verse 2]
G D
The trees turn into buildings and the weeks turn into months
Em A
It'??s one thing or another or it's everything at once;
G D
There's two sides to each story, yes and sometimes many more
Em A
And four bananas make a bunch and two times ten's a score
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Bridge]
G6 D
If we weren'??t in so much trouble I would say that things were fine
F#m Em
And smile as I went walking and just wave on down the line;
A Bm
If there weren'??t so many problems I would say that it'??s okay
Em Bm
And smile as I went walking and just wave on down the way
[Verse 3]
G D
Mothers hate war more in general than Joint Chiefs of Staff
Em A
Battleground statistics don'??t add up in schoolhouse math;
G D
The male of this here species lives for eighty years or so
Em A
Starts to see the mess he's made and then it'??s time to go
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A Bm
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
D Em
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
G
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
(Here)
[Verse 4]
G D
It'??s often said that life is strange, but, hey, compared to what?
Em A
I asked this question years ago, it's still worth asking, but
G D
It all seems stranger now, I think, but that could be just me
Em A
And I've no all-time gauge of strange for objectivity
[Chorus]
Bm Em
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere
A BM
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear
G D
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year
A Bm
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
G D
slide up third string to B note, second string: D note, third string: B-note, A note to D chord,
N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
[Outro]
G D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
G D
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N.C
third string: A-note, B-note
Out of here (here)
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Steve Grand
Steve Green
Steve Gunn
Steve Hackett