Fruit Bats is an American rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois. The group has had many personnel changes but revolves around songwriter Eric D. Johnson. Their albums include Echolocation (2001), Mouthfuls (2003), Spelled in Bones (2005), The Ruminant Band (2009), Tripper (2011), and Absolute Loser (2016). In 2009 Johnson also joined The Shins.
Originally part of short-lived Chicago group I Rowboat, Johnson and two of his fellow Rowboat members, guitarist Dan Strack and drummer Brian Belval, created Fruit Bats as a side-project.
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Verse 1 chords: CCsus4CCsus4 Back when I was not that old CCsus4 For I had me a love before playing in a band CCsus4CCsus4 At the tent and underage C Now I’m old as a drink but the best things to get drunk DmF You’re all in the world that I ha-a-a-a-a-a-a-d C Just me and my unusual friends
Verse 2 chords: CCsus4CCsus4 Playing songs to the magic box CCsus4 To the holes in the old rotten roof sounds of curl-eyed morning CCsus4CCsus4 Back when you, substitute for girls C So I get more food and the passer of the time DmF In the aching dehydrated dou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ough C With my bruised up hollow men DmF Yeah I hold you in my ha-a-a-a-a-and GFGFGFGG#A# Yeah I’m missing my unusual friends
SOLO: [C – Csus4 – C – Csus4] x2, then [Dm – F] x1, then [C – Csus4 – C – Csus4] x1
Verse 3: use verse 1 chords You and her, you stuck around We’ll a were all night used to give my room and kill me There’s a flood on my lungs on the bre-e-e-e-eeze I’m missing my unusual friends You were all in the world that I had My sweet unusual friends
Outro: CCsus4C My sweet unusual friends Csus4C Well my sweet unusual friends