Chords for David Lee Roth/Van Halen- Ice Cream Man St. Louis, MO 7/26/15

_ _ _ _ [G] The [Eb] original gateway [G] drug. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ These kids [Gb] have no idea how far I had to go to find a dispensary that still sells this [G] shit. _ _
I understand it's going to be illegal federally [B] in California at 3-some. _ _ _ _ _
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_ Can you hear me out there?
You have any decent time so far? _
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_ [B] _ Hello. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ This [G] is the best way to listen to the band you want to be in.
It is great.
_ This kind of heat, this kind of humidity, [G] this kind of jungle-ness, this kind of great
American outdoor summer [B] vacations. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] I just recently came across a picture of myself in Bib Overalls.
[E] Shit, how old was I?
About 5 years [G] old.
Learning to tie my shoe on the edge of a little farmhouse where my pop had us live in when
he first started in school.
And the fellow who was teaching me to tie my shoes [Bm] was wearing Bib Overalls too.
And that was the [Db] year that Elvis came out with [B] Hound Dog, if you can believe him. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ 1958.
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_ _ _ This was the first kind of pop music I heard coming out of the little [Bm] stereos and the little radio.
There was always a little Motorola radio in the car garage and there was always a garage
right down the railroad track. _ _ _
So I'm sipping a [B] B-17. _ _
_ _ Sometimes [E] you better leave some heat.
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] You never want to have [E] to climb out [B] of the heat. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ Don't you just pass me by just one day at a time.
_ _ If [Em] you just pass me by just one day at a time.
_ _ If you never go in one [Em] time, be my regular sign.
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_ [G] Riding tour buses [B] now is very different than when we first started.
_ But the gigs [G] never change and it's never [Gb] what you would expect.
Anytime [Fm] you ask somebody, what was your favorite gig?
[Eb] What gig did you remember the most?
And you can [Bb] ask a Springsteen, you can ask a Willie Nelson, [B] you can ask anybody.
You can ask a Kid Rock.
[G] You never can be sure.
You never can be sure of what the answer's going to be.
And I remember, [B] Jesus, how many summers and a million years ago.
[Bm] Alex, are you listening to me back there? _ _ _
He [B] listens on the headpieces.
Al, _ remember when your dad used to come out on the road, riding on the [B] buses with us? _ _
_ _ These guys would [G] go to sleep and I would sit up with Mr.
Ian Haley.
[B] And I would talk about show business [G] with him.
And I asked him one night, what was the best place you ever played?
The best audience you ever had because you played all over the world.
_ [B] _ And he told me that was easy.
_ _ [G] _ It was in the [Gb] train station [Ebm] tunnels during the [B] bombings. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It was not an answer that I had expected.
_ _ He said, oh, we sang and we danced.
He said, trouble outside landed with a big boom.
And it took a whole lot of soul.
[B] Drive that away from the opening to the hole. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] And he gave me some advice that I will share with you now.
It doesn't [Abm] matter how old you are, how old you're pretending to [N] be.
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[G] This comes directly from him. _ _
Listen to as many songs as you possibly can.
As much music as you possibly can.
[Em] Because [G] 10 summers, 20 summers, 30, 40, 50 summers later, when you hear that song,
it takes you [G] right back to where you were.
It takes you right back to who you were.
It takes you back [N] to places you've been and the people that we all were.
_ _ _ _ Me, I was outdoors [Eb] here with you this summer having some ice [G] cream. _
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I'm the ice cream man, it's time to wake up and survive.
I'm _ [Gm] the ice cream man, it's time [B] to wake up and survive. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ I'm here. _
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[Eb] Where am _ _ _ [Bb] I?
On a [Ab] mountainside, inside, inside.
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_ [Eb] Me, [Ab] I'm here.
I'm the ice cream man.
[Eb] I'm the ice cream man.
Ice cream man.
Ice cream man. _
Ice cream man.
_ [Bb] _ [Ebm] On the mountainside, yeah [F] I'm here.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] I'm sure it's going to [Eb] be_
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_ [Eb] Yeah!
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_ _ I love you!
Woo! _