The Old Apartment
Barenaked Ladies
RockMedium for beginners6 chords
How to play it
Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.
G
D
Cadd9
Em
C
CaddDiagram coming soon
Chords & lyrics
Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.
Capo on 3rd fret G D Cadd9 Cadd9 G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Broke into the old apartment. This is where we used to live G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and broken bones. G D Cadd9 Cadd9 This is where we used to live Em D C Em D C Why d id you paint the walls? Why d id you clean the floor? Em D C D Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door G D Cadd9 Cadd9 This is where we used to live . G D Cadd9 D Why did you keep the mousetrap, why did you keep the dish rack G D Cadd9 D These things used to be mine, I guess they still are, I want 'm back. G D Cadd9 Cadd9 G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Broke into the old apartment. Forty-two stairs from the street. G D Cadd9 Cadd Crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow land way filled with crooks G D Cadd9 Cadd9 This is where we used to live Em D C Em D C Why did they pave the lawn? Why did they change the locks? Em D C D Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk G D Cadd9 D This is where we used to live . G D Cadd9 D How is the neighbor downstairs? How is her temper this year G D Cadd9 D I turned up your tv and stomped on the floor just for fun Em D G C I know we don't live here anymore. Em C D G C We bought an old house on the danforth Em D G C C D She loves me and her body keeps me warm; (and) I'm happy here G D Cadd9 Cadd9 But this is where we used to live . G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Broke into the old apartment. G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Tore the phone out of the wall. G D Cadd9 Cadd9 Only memories fading memories blending into dull tableaux G D Cadd9 Cadd9 I want them back. (This is where we used to live) G D Cadd9 Cadd9 I want them back. (This is where we used to live) G D Cadd9 Cadd9 I want them back. (This is where we used to live) G D Cadd9 Cadd9 I want them back.
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Chord set
G · D · Cadd9 · Em · C · Cadd
Practice tip
Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.