Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Why did we
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When the trolley rode easily by?
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Why did we climb high hill,
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when the valley lay safe at our side?
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to come back with the basket of words.
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That this desperate world so deserves
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Just a chance, the ghost of your boy
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Sad songs will never rest
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With the soup so warm on the stove?
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Why did we wind up alone here,
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singing melodies of love?
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we did it to be tender yet tough.
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Isn't that explanation enough?
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Chant the ghost of your poet,
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those old songs were left to rest
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ghost of the poet
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Whose old songs never end
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you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb F Cm Dm
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