Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Was this the girl who caught my eye
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Three lockers down from mine
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Who floated through
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the schoolyard lines
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And taught the sun to shine
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Verse 2
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Was I the boy who sang his dreams
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While thinking just of you
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A shadow in the moonlight night
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On Belmont Avenue
Verse 3
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Whoa, we were the pair who danced alone
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Upon the rooftop high
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The moon glows on the radio
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beneath the diamond sky, oh
Verse 4
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If I knew all the answers
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I'd win the Nobel prize
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But I'm content to know they
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lie behind Susan's eyes
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Behind Susan's eyes
Verse 5
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And wasn't I the rebel king
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Turning wild 17
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While you saw through my fantasies
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A neighborhood saw James Dean
Verse 6
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Was this the girl who laughed at me
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But finally wore my ring
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Who really voiced the soft complaint
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And anchored everything
Verse 7
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Whoa, didn't we just run away
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Through all the fields of gold
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Where we could stay
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forever young
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We never would grow old
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We never would grow old
Verse 8
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Whoa, if I knew all the answers
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I'd win the Nobel prize
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But I'm content to know they
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lie behind Susan's eyes
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Behind Susan's eyes
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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Was I the man who broke your heart
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In ten thousand little ways
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With all the pain in the passing years
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And the sleepless nights and days
Verse 10
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But didn't all those years sail by
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With laughter an d some tears
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Those newborn fingers holding ours
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Among our souvenirs
Verse 11
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Whoa, if I knew all the answers
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I'd win the Nobel prize
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But I'm content to know they
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lie behind Susan's eyes
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Behind Susan's eyes
Verse 12
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Weren't tiny feet upon the sand
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A blend of you and me
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Young barefoot strangers on the beach
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In living fantasy
Verse 13
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Well, isn't life an endless song
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Just slightly out of rhyme
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And didn't you play every note
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That echoed down through time
Verse 14
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Oh, weren't we just a storybook
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Whoa, much more than we seemed
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I think I'd thank the lord above
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Who gave me all my dreams
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Who gave me all my dreams
Interlude 2
Gave me all my dreams
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Verse 15
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Was this the girl who caught my eye
Was this the girl who caught my eye
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAb Fm Eb Db
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