Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Cmaj7
C6
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C6
Verse 1
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C6
I learned the truth at seven teen
Dm9
Dm
DmMaj7
Dm7
That love was meant for beauty queens
with clear skinned smiles
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C6
Who married young and then retired
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C6
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C6
The valentines I never knew
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Dm
DmMaj7
Dm7
The Fri day nights charades of youth
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C6
At seventeen I learned the truth
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Chorus 1
Dm7
G7
Lacking in the social graces
Cm7
Fm7
Desperately remained at home
Cm7
Fm7
Inventing lovers on the phone
Ab
G7
Who called to say "Come dance with me"
Cm7
Fm7
And murmured vague obscenities
Verse 2
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C6
A brown eyed girl in hand-me- downs
Dm9
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DmMaj7
Dm7
Whose name I never could pronounce
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C6
They only get what they deserve"
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And the rich relationed hometown queen
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Dm7
Mar ries into what she needs
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C6
And ha ven for the elder ly
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Chorus 2
Dm7
G7
Lose the love they sought to gain
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Fm7
In debentures of quality
Cm7
Fm7
And dubious integrity
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G7
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
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Fm7
In dull surprise when payment due
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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To those of us who knew the pain
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Dm
DmMaj7
Dm7
Of va lentines that never came
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C6
for basket ball
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It was long ago and far away
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DmMaj7
Dm7
The world was younger than today
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To ugly duckling girls like
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me
Chorus 3
Eb6
We all play the game, and when we dare
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G7
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Cm7
Fm7
Inventing lovers on the phone
Cm7
Fm7
Repenting other lives unknown
Ab
G7
They call and say, "Come dance with me"
Cm7
Fm7
And murmur vague obscenities
Outro 1
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Cmaj7
C6
Cadd9
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