Key: D minor
Verse 1
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but it's a little late for you to be a star.
Perhaps you need to do it,
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give up childish dream s
I played
Columbus stockade blues and
Then picked
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Jimmy
Brown, the newsboy in
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Calypso style
Why do I do this thing that I do?
Like
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clearly is my task
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Sliding to a minor 9th with clarity and grace
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Abm
From a hard day's night
I play guitar
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For reasons too tough to explain
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It keeps me calm and sane
I play guitar when I'm homesick,
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so push don't come to shove
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I play guitar when I am lonely
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I play gui tar when I am blue
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I play guitar when I am happy
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And for spare change, I'll play for you
She looked at me in sympathy
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I remember your profile
She dug into her purse,
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passed her makeup, keys and coins
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will one day let you join
I thanked her for her silver
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then I carried on my way
Bob
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Shifting to some blues, I waved like
B .B.
King
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His three o 'clock in the morning tune,
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That's a soulful song to sing
Threw in
Malaguena, like
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there really was no need
Yes, I'm safe and warm now,
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I don't need to be a star
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In my mind, I always packed the place
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Be it winter, spring or fall
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I get to headline big -time festivals
Carnegie
F
Hall
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I play guitar when I am lonely
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I play guitar, when I am blue I play guitar,
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And for spare change, I'll play for you
My mind is quite at ease now,
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I don't need to be a star
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