Accident On 3rd Street chords by
Al Stewart

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Linda was killed last Saturday
about fifteen blocks from where she lives
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In a car crash, people gathered around the graveside
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friends and relatives dressed in black
Preacher mumblin' how she's
bound to go to Heaven
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The service started at half- past ten,
it was all over by eleven
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They say it's God's to give,
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and God's to take away,
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But why He happened to pick Linda on a Saturday night,
no one could say.
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Maybe it's just one of those things
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One of those things

Verse 2
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They found guy the who did it,
he had the lobotomy and the chicken eyes,
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And he gazed around the courtroom
with a kind of vague surprise
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Reminded me of one of those Vikings
with the long- handled swords
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The kind of guy even Joan Baez
would not feel non- violent towards
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Said he wasn't looking,
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maybe he had had a bit too much
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It was dark, it was raining,
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he didn't see the light or some such
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It was just one of those things,
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One of those things.

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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I asked my local guru the situation
and he gave me this reply
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While pointing a bony finger up into
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the general direction of the sky:
"Get on with your own life,
it is not ours to reason why"
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Said he used to worry about it
once when he was young
Now he doesn't even bother to try
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He left me with a feeling that what
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he said was basically sound
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Like a black hole in space, or philosophy,
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useless but profound
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Just one of those things,
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One of those things.

Verse 4
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Tonight I'm gonna take myself
down to my local cafe
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Gonna get smashed out of my mind,
gonna waste myself away
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Gonna drink and drink and sink
into that dark abyss
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I wanna be just like that Viking,
I wanna know if ignorance is truly bliss.
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Linda's in the cold ground,
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won't see her anymore
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Somewhere out on the highway tonight,
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the drunken engines roar
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It's just one of those things,
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One of those things.

Interlude 2

Verse 5

Oh, just one of those things.

Outro 1

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