a year chords by Loudon Wainwright III
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The only time I've seen
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you was about a year ago
I was afraid to hold you but I
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wanted you to know
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C
I touched your tiny perfect
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hand before I went uptown
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G
I didn't pick you up because I'd
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D
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have to put you down
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Verse 2
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For reasons that don't make much sense
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and you won't understand
I've stayed away for your first year
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it's sort of what I planned
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C
But I've been in your neighbourhood
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C
sometimes just blocks away
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C
I didn't come to visit you because
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I couldn't stay
Verse 3
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There was a baby on a plane
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maybe she was two
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D
And she was smiling at me I
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was not sure what to do
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I've kept my distance from you
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a year's much more than a while
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C
And so I looked away from her
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too ashamed to smile
Verse 4
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When I saw you last year,
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I knew that there was no mistake
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Amazing things can happen why
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just look what life can make
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But life can get so hard sometimes
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some feelings can't be tamed
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And people get so angry
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frightened and ashamed
Verse 5
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You've been a sort of secret for a
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year I've told but few
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Although where you are so
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many must love you
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And I've passed by your window
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but haven't dared look in
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Although I know I'd love you too,
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D
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I'm too scared to begin
a year
Loudon Wainwright III
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