You Think You Know Somebody Chords

Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

F7M9

Intro

Am G F7M9

 You tAmhink you know sF7M9omebody.

 You tAmhink they F7M9know you.

 You tAmhink you kF7M9now somebody.

 But mGan you never do.

CJackie used to live three blocks away from me

CWe used to throw the baseball and we’d climb his old oak tree

 And we would sFneak his old man's cigarettes behind the picket fence

 We swCore that we would always be the Gbest of friends

 We used to Amsit out on the curb andEm talk on summer nights,

 UntilF Jackie's daddy’d call him, anGd then he took off like a light

Friday nights were all the same our high school senior year

We hung out at the river, drank Black Label beer

And we would listen to the Stones with all of our old friends

Maybe sneak a toke or two down where the river bends

I remember how I said I'd drive him home one Friday night

Well he said, "Go on without me, buddy, I'll be alright."

We went off to college to start our Freshman year

Well I went off to school about an hour away from here

But you know Jackie, he took off, went to college out of state

He used to call me all the time, he used to tell me it was great

He said, "I'm coming home for Christmas, and I hope you'll do the same"

He’d say that he was comin, but Jackie never came

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The night that he got married, well I was his best man

He’s moved back to town and now we’re neighbors again

I’ve since found myself a wife, so now I’m married, too

Our families get together every Sunday afternoon

His boy and my boy they sit out and talk at night

'Til Jackie calls for his boy, and he takes off like a light

Last night I saw the flashing lights, and quickly ran outside

A neighbor lady told me that Jackie's youngest boy had died

And I was shocked to see the cops had Jackie handcuffed in the car

‘Til this morning's paper told me that Jackie'd gone too far

And now they’re sayin’ Jackie, he ain’t the only one to blame

‘Cause battered children, they almost always grow up to do the same

Chorus