• Song:

    The Navesink Banks

  • Artist:

    The Gaslight Anthem

  • Album:

    Skin or Swim

tuning: Eb5

Intro: A5 , F5 , A5 , F5 , C5 , G5 , A5

 A5         F5      A5           F5
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"
         C5                    G5                 A5
Said the sign I read that was hanging above her bed
                    F5
And the siren's all willing
      A5                   F5
But a man can't ignore the signs
         C5                       G5            A5
You gotta keep a good eye on the winding road ahead
   
    A5                 C5              F5
And my first sin was a young American girl
    A5                 C5              F5
And my first sin was a young American girl

Interlude: A5 , F5 , A5 , F5 , C5 , G5 , A5

      A5                    F5
And I spent time 'neath the trestles
         A5                      F5
With the punks and the dimestore saints
         C5                      G5                 A5
We kept faith and a switchblade tucked beneath my coat
                     F5
And I ran with dirty angels
A5               F5
Slept out in the rain
        C5                    G5            A5
We were scared and tired and barely seventeen

    A5                   C5                 F5
And my first sin was the fear that made me old
    A5                   C5                 F5
And my first sin was the fear that made me old

Interlude: A5 , F5 , A5 , F5 , C5 , G5 , A5

          F5
And now I walk down by the shipyards
         G5
Near the place where I was born
         C5                            F5
Saying, "Oh Maria, if you'da known me when"
    A5       F5              A5                   F5   
But she only smiles by the light on the Navesink Banks
         C5           G5           A5
Saying, "Listen baby, I know you now"

     A5                 F5
Then she steps into the river
    A5                  F5
And I just stand by the moon
 C5                     G5          A5
Thinking 'bout a ghost I hear at night
               A5                   C5                   F5
And she says, "Your first sin was a lie you told yourself.
     A5                   C5             F5
"And your first sin was a lie you told yourself.

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