Fred Eaglesmith

Ninety-Nine Miles An Hour

Fred Eaglesmith


Tom: C

C F C F C G7 C

[Verse]
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There's static on the radio where the lightning breaks the sky
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Makes it hard to sing-a-long no matter how I try
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And I saw you dancing across the skyline tonight with somebody new
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And you were singing the songs to him that I use to sing to you

[Chorus]
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And it's twenty-five miles an hour
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The rain dancing off of the old window screen
  C         F          C        F
I think I'm gonna miss you much more
            C    G          C
Than you're ever gonna miss me
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E than you're ever gonna miss me

[Verse]
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I remember bright shiny lights two hearts burning on fire
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Brand new shirts on Saturday nights, I love you that never got tired
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Quietly now, the tune gets lower, the old fiddle broke it's string
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Finally you don't like the songs anymore and all you can change is the station


[Chorus]
         F           G7       C
And it's sixty-five miles an hour
    F            C                     G      G7
The rain dancing off of the old window screen
  C         F          C        F
I think I'm gonna miss you much more
            C    G          C
Than you're ever gonna miss me
F             C    G          C
E than you're ever gonna miss me

[Verse]
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I got a friend - lives down by the river - likes to be alone
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Sometimes I wonder that he doesn't go crazy but it only goes to show
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And like the storm that rolled on with the stream they'll always stay the same
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Somebody said with a tear in his eye "You're better off, anyway"

[Chorus]
         F            G7       C
And it's ninety-nine miles an hour
    F            C                     G      G7
The rain dancing off of the old window screen
  C         F          C        F
I think I'm gonna miss you much more
            C    G          C
Than you're ever gonna miss me
F             C    G          C
E than you're ever gonna miss me
F             C    G          C
E than you're ever gonna miss me