Dan Bern - Rollerblades Chords

Note: Roman numerals in parentheses are fret for bar chord to be played.

Intro:
C C/G C C/G

        C                            G                 C C/G C C/G
Let me tell you ’bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
      C                            G                 C C/G C C/G
I’ll tell you ’bout the night I decided to buy some rollerblades
    F                           C                          F                       C
My poet and my painter friends called me from a bar, they said take a taxi if you don’t have a car
       F                      C                     F                       C              G           
We’ll talk about Monica and Clinton and Starr and that was the best night that I spent in New York so far
C C/G C C/G    C C/G C C/G

       C                   G            C C/G C C/G
I was living in a hotel on 25th and 3rd Avenue
   C                 G               C C/G C C/G
A noodle shop and a pizza place was my view
     F                  C                      F                                 C
The poet had lived six years in the hotel the painter was from England from the town of Bristol
 F                   C                  F              C   G            F                    C
Massive Attack was playing and he said he could get us all in, 'cause they’re from Bristol, too
      F                       C              G           C C/G C C/G
And that was the best night that I spent in New York so far

Bridge:
F#m(IX)                      C# (IX)
I should say by way of explanation, that this 
E(077900)                B(799800)
Girl I met in Amsterdam turned me on to Massive Attack
D(X)                              A(V)             G(III)
She was cool and so are they and life is good sometimes

C                  G               C C/G C C/G
After the show we went to a party with the band
   C                   G                C C/G C C/G
I didn't say a word to anybody, that's how I am
     F                      C                    F                          C
The poet left the party to meet up with a girl, me and the painter started walking up Third
    F                         C               F                 C             Am                             F
At four in the morning for a doner-kabob and somewhere in there I decided to buy some rollerblades the next day
  F                       C
That was the best night that I spent
  F                       C
That was the best night that I spent
  F                       C              G           C   F C
That was the best night that I spent in New York so far