Chords for Dr Hook - "I Got Stoned And I Missed It" (Live from BBC show 1980)

_ [Bb] _ _ _ I want to talk to all [Abm] these people for a minute.
Now listen, _ we are all guilty of making mistakes in our life.
_ We've all made mistakes, probably made the same mistakes, but made them in different ways. _ _
_ _ As a matter of fact, I know that all of us at one time or another have been just a little bit too stoned.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's what this song is all about.
I want you all to come on and help me out. _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] All right, Billy.
[A] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ I was sitting in my basement, I just rolled myself a [E] taste of [F] something green and gold and gold, yeah.
To get me through the day.
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I went up in your [Ab] food and [G] drank some, [Bb] I grabbed a Coke and [Eb] get you a hat, son.
[F] As I looked down on the corner, giving dollar [Bb] bills away.
_ But [F] I sat around a bit and had another hit, then I rolled myself a bomber and I thought about my mama,
then I looked around for a while and then_
I [Bb] got stoned and I missed it, I got stoned and I [F] missed it, I got stoned and [Bb] hold my fire.
_ I got stoned and I missed it, _ I [G] [F] got stoned, won't [Bb] be old, my.
[Ab] _ [A] [Bb] It took seven months of urging just to get that local virgin [F] with a sweet face up my plate to pull around [Bb] a bit. _ _
Well, next day she woke up rosy, she snuggled up [Eb] supposing.
[F] She asked me how I liked it, it hurt me to [Bb] admit.
_ I got stoned and I missed it, I got stoned and I missed it, I got [F] stoned [Ab] and [Bb] hold my fire.
_ I got stoned and I missed it, _ _ _ [Em] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] I got stoned and hold my fire.
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_ _ [N] _ _ _ I ain't making no excuses for the many things I uses just to speeden my relationships and brighten up my [Bb] days. _
When [Bbm] the earthly race is over [Bb] and I'm ready for the clover, [F] when they ask me how my life has been, I guess I'll [Bb] say_
I was stoned and I missed it, I was stoned and I [Gm] missed it, [F] I was stoned and [Bb] hold my [C] fire.
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[Bb] _ Everybody [Ab] else hold that.
[Bb] _ [N] _ _ _
_ Alright, now I got me a chair, I'm gonna sit down and now we all sit down. _ _
But I know we ain't all sitting down. _ _ _ _
Man over here standing up, big old tall man too. _ _
Now here's what I'd like to do if I could get everybody in, don't stop that. _ _
_ Now what I'd like to get everybody to do, all the people at home, whatever you're doing and all you people up here in the audience.
First of all this is John Walters back here on the drums.
Johnny, _ _ _ _ _ now John is gonna give us seven beats on the drums.
We're gonna count the beats together and when he gets to seven we're gonna all stand right up, put our fist up in the air and say, I was stoned.
_ And then we're gonna sit down.
_ _ [E] Alright, listen, do y'all wanna do it?
Yeah!
Alright, give me the beat y'all. _ _
[Gm] One, [N] two, three, four, five, six, seven.
I was stoned and I missed it, I was stoned and I missed it, I [Ab] was stoned and hold my fire.
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I was [Bb] stoned and I missed it, I was stoned [N] _ _
_ _ and hold [Bb] my fire.
_ Y'all, just move it around a little bit.
I was stoned and I [E] missed it, I [F] was stoned and [Bb] hold my [F] _ fire.
[Bb] I was _ _ _ stoned and I missed it, [F] I was stoned [Bb] and hold my fire. _
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