Sweet sixteen    (video)

 

    A ~ ~                 Am

1.          I´ll do anything for my sweet sixteen,

 

    and I´ll do anything for little runaway child.

                                        F                                   Am

    Gave my heart an engagement ring, she took everything,

                          G                                 Am

    everything I gave her, oh, sweet sixteen.

                                   F

    Built a moon for a rocking chair,

                                             G

    I never guessed it would rock her far from here, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

 

   F                           G                      Am

Someone´s built a candy castle for my sweet sixteen,

  F                           G                                Am

someone´s bulit a candy brain and filled it in.

 

                              Am

2. Well, I´ll do anything for my sweet sixteen,

 

    oh, I´ll do anything for little runaway child.

                                      F                                     Am

    Well, memories will burn you, mem´ries grow older than people can,

                           G                             Am

    they just get colder, like sweet sixteen.

                F                                     G

    Oh, I see, it´s clear, baby, that you are all through here, oh, oh, oh, oh.

 

   F                           G                      Am

Someone´s built a candy castle for my sweet sixteen,

  F                           G                       Am

someone´s bulit a candy house to house her in, oh oh !

   F                           G                     Am

Someone´s built a candy castle for my sweet sixteen,

  F                           G                      Am

someone´s bulit a candy brain and filled it in.

 

                         Am

+  And I do anything for my sweet sixteen,

 

    oh, I do anything for little runaway girl !

F - C    G                                             - F - C - G

         Yeah, sad and lonely and blue,                    gettin´ over you.

F           - C                        G

    How,        how do you think it feels, yeah 

F - C            G

         to get up in the morning, get over you ?

 

    Up in the morning, get over you

 

    wipe away the tears, get over you, get over, get over ….

 

                          Am

3. My sweet sixteen, oh, runaway child,

 

    oh, sweet sixteen, little runaway girl !

                                        F                                 Am

    Gave my heart an engagement ring, she left everything,

                          G                                 Am

    everything I gave her, oh, sweet sixteen.

                                   F

    Built a moon for a rocking chair,

                                             G

    I never guessed it would rock her far from here, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

 

   F                           G                      Am

Someone´s built a candy castle for my sweet sixteen,

  F                           G                       Am

someone´s bulit a candy house to house her in, oh oh !

   F                           G                     Am

Someone´s built a candy castle for my sweet sixteen,

  F                         G                      Am

someone took a candy house to house her in.

     

            Am

+  And I do anything for my sweet sixteen,

 

    oh, I´ll  do anything for my runaway child ....

 

    (Billy Idol)