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G C Em/B D
Capo: 3rd fret
Intro
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verse 1
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Long hair and longer stride
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Skateboard affair with the primal tribe
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And your cut-off painter pants
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Chargin down the craggy mountains, with our thrift-store friends
Pre-Chorus
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And who you find so, so in love with the falling earth
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Who you wake in the middle of the fallin' night with summer playing coy
verse 2
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And In the attics of the city night
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We talked corso and the M.C. five
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And you could dance like, we were all alright
Chorus 1
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Only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
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Oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
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Only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
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Stars are up now, no place to go, but everywhere
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verse 3
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One I met in the green mountain state
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I dropped out, and he moved away
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Heard he got some land down south
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Changed his name to a name the birds could pronounce
Chorus 2
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Only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
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Oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
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Only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
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Stars are up now, no place to go, but everywhere
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verse 4
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And in the city the mayor said
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Those who dance are all mislead
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So you packed your things and moved to the other coast
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Said you gonna be like Charlie Rose
Chorus 3
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Only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
D C D Em/B
Oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
D C D Em/B
Only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
D C D G G C G G C
Stars are up now, no place to go, but everywhere
Interlude
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Em/B Em/B C Em/B Em/B C
G G C G G C
Em/B Em/B C Em/B C D Em/B
Chorus 4
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Only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
D C D Em/B
Oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
D C D Em/B
Only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
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Stars are up now, no place to go, but everywhere
Written by Brad Corrigan/Dispatch/Pete Heimbold/Charlie Stokes Urmston