C  G  C    G   C   F  D7  C  G  C

[Verse]
                       G                   C
When I was born, Harry Truman was the president
                                    G
When I was born, Harry was the president
    C
Now Harry S Truman was the president
  F             D7
A loaf of bread cost ten cents
     C           G                  C
When I was born, Harry was the president

[Verse]
                      G                   C
When I was born, they thought I was gonna die (stomach trouble)
                                                  G
Daddy took to drinking and my momma, she began to cry
      C
Yeah, Hoagie sang Old Buttermilk Sky
    F                 D7
The year was Nineteen Forty-Five
     C                G                   C
When I was born, they thought I was gonna die

[Chorus]
G
Modern love, modern art
    F                 C
You grow up, then you fall apart
    F                     C
You fall apart, then they put you back together
    D7               G
Now Hoagie's singing Stormy Weather
        F
Now you got a wife and kids to feed
     C
They all got different wants and needs
            G
And there's two damn things that'll break your heart
C
Modern love and modern art

[Verse]
                  G               C
In Nineteen Fifty-Three I went to school
                                            G
And the nuns, they hit me with their Golden Rule
              C
They said, to calm your nerves, we're on their way
   F                 D7
We knelt beneath our desks and prayed
   C                  G            C
We spent out dimes on Pagan babies too

[Verse]
                        G                C
Well, in Nineteen Sixty-Four the Beatles came
                                                G
Yeah, I snuck in the Hollywood Bowl right up on stage
           C
And that's where I saw Bob Dylan's show
     F           D7
When he sang Desolation Row
    C             G               C
And somehow I was never quite the same

[Chorus]
G
Modern love, modern art
    F                 C
You grow up, then you fall apart
    F                     C
You fall apart, then they put you back together
    D7               G
Now Hoagie's singing Stormy Weather
        F
Now you got a wife and kids to feed
     C
They all got different wants and needs
            G
And there's two damn things that'll break your heart
C
Modern love and modern art

[Instrumental]
C  G  C    G   C   F  D7  C  G  C

[Verse]
                    G              C
In Nineteen Seventy-One I formed a band
                                      G
Dave said, "Tonight upon the Skid Row stand
              C
We're singing Hank and Lefty, Buck and Merle
   F           D7
To Indians and topless girls"
       C           G              C
That's where my education still began

[Verse]
                          G                C
Now I make up songs, some real and some pretend
                                       G
But my sister says my songs need happy ends
            C
Yeah, we'll all live happily ever after
     F              D7
Man, that'll be the final chapter
      C                   G               C
Don't know ever lasts for real, that's pretend

[Chorus]
G
Modern love, modern art
    F                 C
You grow up, then you fall apart
    F                     C
You fall apart, then they put you back together
    D7               G
Now Hoagie's singing Stormy Weather
        F
Now you got a wife and kids to feed
     C
They all got different wants and needs
            G
And there's two damn things that'll break your heart
C
Modern love and modern art

[Outro]
                      G                   C
When I was born Harry Truman was the president
                      G                   C
When I was born Harry Truman was the president, yeah