[Intro]
e|--0-5-8-5--------0-3---------1------------------0---------1-5-1------------|
B|---------------0--------------------1---------1---------3-------3----------|
G|-2-------------------------0--0-------------0---------2--------------------|
D|-------------2-----------3------3-------------------0----------------------|
A|------------------------------------------3--------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----0----------3---------------4------------------------------------------|
B|----1-------0-3---3-0-------1-3---3----------------------------------------|
G|---0------0-----------0---1------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-3-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------2------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------3------------------------------------------|
G|-------6----7--------------1----2-----2------7-----9-----1-----------------|
D|-7-----6----7----7----4----2----------2------7-----9-----2----4------------|
A|-7-----4----5----7----4----2----------2------5-----7-----2----4------------|
E|-5---------------5----2---------------------------------------2------------|
e|-2-----1-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3-----3-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2-----2----2----------14--------------------------------------------------|
D|------------2----------14--------------------------------------------------|
A|------------2----------12--------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
A C# D A
I've never known a better writer or a better guy
F#m E D A
His songs wouldn't just touch you, they'd punch you in the eye
D A C# F#m
It doesn't happen a lot, but everybody says the same that he wasn't supposed to die
Bm D
So let's clink our beers
Dm
And give three cheers
A
To Tony Sly
[Verse 2]
A C#
I never heard a bad word about him
D A
I never heard a bad melody
F#m E D A
His dying isn't tragic: it's a fucking catastrophe
D E
I've lost my parents, and so many friends
C# F#m
I take it "c'est la vie"
Bm D Dm A
It's nothing like losing my friend Tony
[Verse 3]
A C# D A
Sometimes on weekends when our kids'd hang out together
F#m E D A
Keira tells Darla that her dad's songs are better
D
And I think she's sad
E C#
cause tomorrow she hopes her dad
F#m
is coming home
Bm D Dm
Cuz he told her that three years ago on the phone
[Bridge 1]
F#m F#m/F
Tony, you make me see myself
F#m/E Bm
In a way I don't wanna see
F#m F#m/F F#m/E Bm
Do I have to stop living so recklessly?
D
So I can be the father, I know I can be
[Bridge 2]
F#m Bm E A G# (x2)
[Verse 4]
A C#
All the endless nights we had
D A
20 years of laughs
F#m E D A
I've looked, but I can't find any photographs
D E
Of us because it's weird to take
C# F#m
Photos with your best friends
Bm D
Cause you don't think
Dm A
That you never see them again
[Verse 5]
A C#
I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you
D A
When you needed me in the end
F#m E
I was there to give you eulogy
D A
But not when you needed a friend
D E C# F#m
And when they lowered your body into the ground even the piper began to cry
Bm
From coast to coast
D Dm
Let's raise our drinks and give a toast
A
To Tony Sly
[Outro]
e|-----0----5---0-------1---9-------2----5----2------0------------------------|
B|--------------------2---2-------------------------------2-3-2---------------|
G|---2---2----2----------------------------------------2----------------------|
D|-----------------------------4-0----0----0-----0---2------------------------|
A|-0---------------4----------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-2-------2---4----4----4----9-7-5-----2--------2-----------1----------------|
B|------3------------------------------------3--------3------3----------------|
G|---2-----------1----1-----1--------------2---2---2-----2---2----------------|
D|-0-----------2---------3--------4-----0--------------------0----------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|