From The '59 Sound Sessions. Lyrics are from Genius, please let me know if something is incorrect.
Gaslight would always tune down a whole step (DGCFAD) and I'm sure this demo was no exception,
so I tabbed it accordingly, but if you want to play in standard, just transpose up two semitones
so the first chord reads "C".
[Intro]
D G A (x4)
[Verse 1]
D
In the middle of the night
A G
everyone is sleeping
D
Once the bands have died down
A G
And our brothers and our sisters have gone
D
I feel the shaking in my sides
G
conscious and familiar
D
I pace some unfamiliar street
G
Until I pass out or calm down enough
Bm A
And I can't tell you how desperate
G A
some times have gotten
[Chorus]
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
hold on Maria
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I'm coming home
D
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I nearly lost you
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I'm coming home
[Verse 2]
D
And in the middle of the day
A G
when the heat keeps on rising
D A
The fear of sickness or breakdown or infidelity
G
Makes its rounds
D
And in the drag of the late afternoon
G
settling in into evening
D
Well, that I just can't describe
G
with a dry eye or American words
Bm A
And I can't tell you how many times
G A
I just want to lie down
[Chorus]
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
hold on Maria
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I'm coming home
D
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I nearly lost you
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I'm coming home
[Interlude]
Bm G D A (x2)
[Bridge]
Bm
You and your high-top sneakers
G
and your sailor tattoos
D
And your old fifty-five
A
that you drove through the roof
Bm G
Of the sky up above these indifferent stars
D A
While you just kept coming apart
N.C.
Hold on, hold on, hold on!
[Chorus]
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
hold on Maria
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
G A
I'm coming home
D G A
These records and these bands and ? really matter
D
To these hands and these arms and
G A
this tired Irish heart made of stone
[Outro]
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
G A
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
D
You gotta just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
G A D A G
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on