• Song:

    Am Radio

  • Artist:

    Everclear

  • Album:

    Songs From An American ...

Key 
^ - upstroke 
\ - slide up the guitar (towards the body) 
/ - slide down the guitar (towards the headstock) 
 
"KHJ Los Angeles. Portions of the day's programming are  
reproduced by means of electrical transcription or tape recordings." 
 
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A VCR and a DVD  
There wasn't none of that crap back in 1970 
We didn't know about a world wide web 
It was a whole different game being played  
Back when I was a kid 
You wanna get down in a cool way?  
Picture yourself on a beautiful day 
With the big bell bottoms and groovy long hair 
Just a walking in style with a portable CD player 
 
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No you listen to the music on the AM radio 
Yea, you can hear the music on the AM radio 
 
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Flash back to '72 
Another summer in the neighbrohood 
Hanging out with nothing to do 
Sometimes we go driving around in my sister's Pinto 
Crusing with the windows rolled down 
We listen to the radio station 
We were too damn poor to buy the 8-track tapes 
But it was a good time don't wanna be inside 
My momma wanna watch that TV 
All God damn night 
    
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I'd be in bed with the radio on 
I would listen to it all night long 
Just to hear my favorite song 
You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the AM radio 
 
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AM radio 
Yea, you could hear the music 
On the AM radio 
I can still hear momma say 
"Boy turn that radio down!" 
 
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 "Oh Mom, not that show again. I don't wanna watch that show.  
Can't we watch Good Times with Chico and the Man or something cool?  
Turn it off!" 
 
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Things changed back in '75 
We were all growing up on the in and the outside 
We got in trouble with the police man 
We got busted for getting high  
In the back of my friend's van 
 
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I remember 1977  
I started going to concerts 
And I saw the Led Zeppelin 
 
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I got a guitar on Christmas Day 
I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come to Santa Monica and teach me to play 
 
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Teach me to play  Jimmy Page     
 
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Teach me to play  Teach me to play 
 
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There isn't any other place that I need to go 
There isn't anything that I need to know 
That I did not learn from the radio 
 
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                                               Ha ha ha  
 
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            Yeah, when things gets stupid and I just don't know 
 
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   When I find my happy 
I listen to the music on the AM Radio 
You can hear the music on the AM Radio 
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco  
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco  
 
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We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco  
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco  
AM Radio... No we never liked disco  
AM Radio... No we never liked disco  
AM Radio... No we never liked disco  
AM Radio... No we never liked disco  
 
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