Crowded Island chords by Stephen Schwartz
Verse 1
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Everyone I know
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G
Em
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wants to be in love with someone,
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Bm
just not with someone they
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A
know.
D
Everyone I know
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G
will tell you they're a cynic,
F#
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Em
then cry at some old movie
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on the video.
Abdim
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Oh, eight million people
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A
in twenty -two square miles
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G
D
A
And there's never any one to meet
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A
We're like guests at a banquet
E
with nothing to eat
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A
B
So we hunger for the waiter
E
C#m
Or crave the operator
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A
on the telephone
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G#m
C#
Just trying not to be alone
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E
Em
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On this crowded is land
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Bm
Everyone I know
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Wants someone to hold them
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G
Just not in too tight a grip
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D
Everyone I know
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F#
Believes that love will save them
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Just not their current relationship
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Oh, over a beer or a stove,
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Em
my friends pour out their
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Bsus4
tales of woe
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Em
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How they can't get a lov
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E
er to stay or to go
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We're all closet romantics,
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C#m
the soundtrack in our head
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full of saxophone
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B
G#m
C#
Just trying not to be alone
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E
C#m
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Bm
G
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D#m
on this crowded island
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D#m
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ba ba da ba ba da ba da ba
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Everyone I know,
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A
wants to be in love with someone,
D
Bm
just not with someone they know.
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A
D
Everyone I know
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G
will meet someone at a party
F#
Bm
And think, should I start planning
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my true song?
Em
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Bsus4
A
How awful and corny I smile at you
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Feeling I could use more charm
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A
Em
G
Then you smile on back
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Bsus4
And all I feel is alarm
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C#m
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B
I don't know if I want you
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C#m
But I'm putting on my black jeans
D
and lime cologne
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G#m
C#
And tonight we won't be alone
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E
C#m
On this crowded island
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E
C#m
On this crowded island
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This little crowded island
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E
C#m
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B
C#m
A
You
Crowded Island
Stephen Schwartz
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