San Quentin chords by Nickelback

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Dm

🎸 Intro:

 D5 | D5 : 2x




🎸 Verse 1:
G5  D5
    Let’s get this circus
C5  D5
    On down the road
C5  D5                 C5  A5 G5   A5  F5  G5
    We’re taking bets how far a tank of gas will go
D5
 Call up your best friend
C5  D5
    Then comes your mom
C5  D5                C5   A5 G5 A5  F5  G5
    About to do some shit that you ain’t seen befo---re
D5
 There ain’t no back door
C5  D5
    There ain’t no sign
C5  D5              C5 A5  G5  A5  F5  G5
    Location changes almost every o--ther night
D5
 Last time we found it
C5  D5
    Can’t remember much
C5  D5             D5
I thought I was a God until my lawyer woke me up and said…

🎸 Chorus:
  Dm  C       Gm       C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
     Dm   C      Gm       C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
     Dm   C       Gm   C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
  C     F
So somebody, please
   Gm     F        Dm  C  Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C      Dm   C  Gm
Out of San Quentin
       C      Dm   C  Gm
Just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
        F
Can somebody, please
   Gm   F        Dm   C5  D5  C5  D5  G5
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin


🎸 Verse 2:
G5  D5
    Got out on bail
C5  D5
    We hit the town
C5  D5                 C5 A5 G5 A5  F5  G5
    Somebody told me we should burn it to the ground
D5
 Too many favors
C5  D5
    Too much to drink
C5  D5
    Come 6AM they had me back inside the clink


🎸 Chorus:
  Dm  C       Gm       C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
     Dm   C      Gm       C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
     Dm   C       Gm   C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
  C     F
So somebody, please
   Gm     F        Dm  C  Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C      Dm   C  Gm
Out of San Quentin
       C      Dm   C  Gm
Just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
        F
Can somebody, please
   Gm     F      Dm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin


🎸 Solo:
 Dm | Dm :

 Dm  C | Gm  C : 3x

 C  F | Gm  F | Dm :


🎸 Instrumental:
 D5 | D5 :


🎸 Bridge:
 D5
Tough to fight
I got an alibi
 D5
Wrong or right, it’s tough to justify
   D5
You can’t dismiss too many witnesses
    D5
When insanity’s the plan
     D5
It don’t matter what it is


🎸 Chorus:
  Dm  C       Gm       C
I testify that I was fried out of my mind
     Dm   C      Gm       C
Let the record show I did it all for rock & roll
     Dm   C       Gm   C
Screaming every night, playing 25 to life
  C     F
So somebody, please
   Gm     F        Dm  C  Gm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin
C      Dm   C
Out of San Quentin
Gm        C      Dm  C  Gm
Oh, just keep me out of San Quentin
C
Ooh
        F
Can somebody, please
   Gm     F      Dm
Keep me the hell out of San Quentin