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{title: This is the life} {artist: Amy MacDonald} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 94} {key: C#m} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [C#m] [A] [E] [G#m] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} oh the [C#m]wind whistles down the [A]cold dark street tonight and the [E]people they were dancing [G#m] to the music vibe and the [C#m]boys chase the girls with the curls in their hair while the [A]shy tormented youth sit way over there and the [E]songs they get louder, each one better than be[G#m]fore {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? {end_of_chorus} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 2} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? where you gonna sleep to[C#m]night? [A] [E] [G#m] {end_of_chorus} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} so your [C#m]heading down the road in your taxi for four and you're [A]waiting outside Jimmy's front door but [E]nobody's in and nobody's home 'till [G#m]four so you're [C#m]sitting there with nothing to do talking a[A]bout Robert Riger and his motley crew and [E]where you're gonna go and where you're gonna sleep to[G#m]night {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? {end_of_chorus} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 2} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? where you gonna sleep {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Solo} to[C#m]night? [A] [E] [G#m] [C#m] [A] [E] [G#m] {end_of_part} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1, x3} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? {end_of_chorus} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 2} and you're singing the [C#m]songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the [A]morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go? [E]where you gonna go? where you gonna sleep to[G#m]night? where you gonna sleep to[C#m]night? [A] [E] [G#m] [C#madd9] {end_of_chorus}