19th Nervous Breakdown

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19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
By: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
Key: E

  -4   -4   -4  -3 -3   3*
You're the kind of per-son 
 3*  3* -2* -2*  2    3*  3*  -3  -3 -3 3*
You meet at cer-tain dis-mal dull af-fairs. 
-4  -4  -4 -3  -3    3*   3*  3*  -2*  -2*
Cen-ter of a crowd, talk-ing much too loud 
 2   2   3*  3*  -3  -3   -3 3*
Run-ning up and down the stairs. 
 -5   -5  -5   5* 5*  -4  -4
Well, it seems to me that you 
 -3   -3   3*  3* -2* -2*  2    2
have seen too much in too few years. 
-4    -4    -3     -3    3*  3*   -2*   -2*
And though you've tried you just can't hide 
 2    3*   3*  -3    -3   -3
Your eyes are edged with tears. 

 3*  3* -4   -4    3*  3* -3 2
You bet-ter stop  look a-round 
 -3  -3 -2*3*   -3  -3  -3-4
Here it comes, here it comes, 
 -5  -5  -5 6   -5  -5  -5 6
here it comes, here it comes 
 6     6    -5   -5    5*    5*  -4   -3    -3
Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down. 

 -4  -4   -4 -3  -3
When you were a child 
 3*  3*    3* -2*  -2*
You were treat-ed kind 
 2   2   2    3* 3*   -3    -3 -3 3*
But you were nev-er brought up right. 
-4   -4  -4  -3    -3     3*  3*  3*  -2*  -2*
You were al-ways spoiled with a thous-and toys 
 2    3*   3*  -3   -3   -3
But still you cried all night. 
 -5   -5  5*  5* -4  -4   -3 -3
Your moth-er who ne-glect-ed you 
 3*  3* 3*  -2* -2*  2    2
Owes a mil-lion dol-lars tax. 
-4   -4  -4   -3    -3    3*  3*  -2* 
And your fa-ther's still per-fect-ing 
-2*  2   3*  3*  -3  -3 -33*
ways of mak-ing ceil-ing wax. 

 3*  3* -4   -4    3*  3* -3 2
You bet-ter stop  look a-round 
 -3  -3 -2*3*   -3  -3  -3-4
Here it comes, here it comes, 
 -5  -5  -5 6   -5  -5  -5 6
here it comes, here it comes 
 6     6    -5   -5    5*    5*  -4   -3    -3
Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

-5*  -5*  -5* -5*5*  -4    6     6   6   6
Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just in-sane. 
 -4   -5  -5 -5 -5   5*   -5  -5  -5
Well noth-ing I do don't seem to work, 
-4 -5* 6   6   -5* -5* -5*  6     6
It on-ly seems to make mat-ters worse. 
-5* -87*-6*6-5*
Oh   please. 

-4   -4   -4   -3   -3
You were still in school 
 3*   3*  3*  -2*  -2*
When you had that fool 
 2   3*  3*   -3    -3   -3
Who real-ly messed your mind. 
-4  -4 -3   -3   3*   3*   -2*   -2*
And af-ter that you turned your back 
2    3*   3* -3  -3  -33*
On treat-ing peo-ple kind. 
-5 -5    5*   5*
On our first trip 
-4  -4  -3  -3  3* 3* -2* -2*   2    2
I tried so hard to re-ar-range your mind. 
-4  -4 -4 -3  -3   3*3* -2* -2* 
But af-ter a while I re-al-ized 
 2   2    3* 3*  -3  -3  -33*
you were dis-ar-rang-ing mine. 

 3*  3* -4   -4    3*  3* -3 2
You bet-ter stop  look a-round 
 -3  -3 -2*3*   -3  -3  -3-4
Here it comes, here it comes, 
 -5  -5  -5 6   -5  -5  -5 6
here it comes, here it comes 
 6     6    -5   -5    5*    5*  -4   -3    -3
Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.
6     6    -5   -5    5*    5*  -4   -3    -3
Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.
6     6    -5   -5    5*    5*  -4   -3    -3
Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

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