20 Once By Brad Fleming D A E A D A E Verse 1 We Were DTwenty Once, Yea AWeren’t We Something Shoulder EPads And Stadium ALights We Could DRun All Day, Raise HelAl All Night And SomehEow Still Show Up For The FighAt Spring Break DSun And Borrowed AMoney A Crew Of EBrothers, Thick As AThieves We Were DBusy Living StoriAes We Didn’t EKnow We’d Someday ANeed Chorus We Were Twenty Once DTen Feet Tall And BulletAproof Football Lights And Crazy ENights With Nothing Yet To ALose We Thought Forever Meant DForever Hell, What Did We AKnow? Now Forever’s Getting EShorter And Those Memories Are ALong Ago So Here’s To DEvery One Of UsA And The EBoys We Were Back TheAn We Were Twenty DOnce Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiAn Verse 2 Now The DGroup Text Wakes Up AEarly With Old EPictures, Jokes And MemoriAes Stories NDo One Would Ever BelieAve But We All Know What HEappened... AllegedAly Now There’s DWives And Kids And Miles BetAween Us Aching Knees And EReading Glasses For Old AEyes But Thirty DYears Can DisappAear With One “RemeEmber When” From ’95 A Chorus We Were Twenty Once DTen Feet Tall And BulletAproof Football Lights And Crazy ENights With Nothing Left To ALose We Thought Forever Meant ForDever Hell, What Did We AKnow? Now Forever’s Getting EShorter And Those Memories Are ALong Ago So Here’s To DEvery One Of UAs And The EBoys We Were Back AThen We Were Twenty DOnce Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiAn Verse 3 Three Of DUs Wound Up In AFlorida On A EPorch Beneath The APalms One Had A DHouse, One Made The ADrive One Showed EUp With A GuitAar We Don’t DParty Like We AUsed To Truth Is, That’s EProbably For The ABest But Get Us DTalking ‘Bout The AOld Days And We’re Those ESame Damn Boys AgaiAn Bridge You Don’t DKnow You’re Making AMemories Till They’re EThirty Years AgAo You Don’t DKnow Which Nights You’ll Talk AAbout For The Rest Of Your ELife When You’re AOld And I’d Never TDrade The Life I’ve AGot To Go EBack And Start AAgain But Those DMemories And The AStories Are What EForged Us Into AMen Final Chorus We Were Twenty Once DTen Feet Tall And BulletprAoof Thought We’d Always Have ToEmorrow Like Only Young Men ADo Now Each Day Means A DLittle More Than It Ever ADid Back Then It’s The EOnes At Home Who Love Us And Old ABrothers Still Our Friends So Here’s To DEvery One Of AUs And Our EBrothers Gone Too ASoon We Were Twenty DOnce And Somehow AThirty Disappeared Outro Yeah, We Were Twenty Once D A Man, Didn’t We Have A ERuAn We Thought We Had ForDeveAr Turns Out Nobody EDoes A So Wherever DLife May Take UAs Till The ELast Old Story EndAs We Were Twenty DOnce A And We’ll Be EBrothers Til The EndA. D A E A D A E A
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What are the chords for We Were 20 Once?
The chords for We Were 20 Once are: D, A, E
What is the original key of We Were 20 Once?
The original key is G.
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How many chords are used in We Were 20 Once?
We Were 20 Once uses 3 chords: D, A, E
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