19th Nervous Breakdown
Words & Music:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Chords:
E = x x 7 7 7
x | A = x x 11 9 10 x
| B = 8 10 10 8 7 7
riff 1 riff 2 riff 3 riff 4
E
B A A
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---10-10-9--- ---5-5-4--- ---3-3-2--- -----5s3-|
---11-11-9--- ---6-6-4--- ---4-4-2--- -4s6-----|
-9---------9- -4-------4- -2-------2- ---------|
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E
You're the kind of
person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd,
talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs.
A
Well, it seems to
me that you have seen too much in too few years.
E
And though you've
tried you just can't hide, your eyes are edged with tears.
CHORUS:
B(riff 2)
A(riff 4)
You'd better stop and look
around.
E
A
Here it comes, here it comes,
here it comes, here it comes,
E
Here comes your 19th nervous
breakdown.
When you were a
child, you were treated kind,
But you were never
brought up right.
You were always
spoiled with a thousand toys, but still you cried all night.
Your mother who
neglected you, owes a million dollars tax.
And your father's
still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.
CHORUS:
BRIDGE:
B
E
Oh, who's to blame? That girl's just insane.
A(riff 3)
B(riff 2)
Well, nothing I do don't seem
to work, it only seems to make matters worse.
E
Oh, please
You were still in
school when you had that fool who really messed your mind.
And after that you
turned your back on treating people kind.
On our first trip,
I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after while I
realized you were disarranging mine.
CHORUS: [repeat last line & out]