Dateline chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Intro 1

It's yet a day, when in

Verse 1
G 
fact it's tomorrow
Bb 
What you're feeling now,
A 
G 
is just the day's joy and sorrow
D 
Your future's secure though,
G 
forever somehow
Bb 
A 
G 
Dm 
It's already over, what's going on now
Bb 
A 
It's already happened,
G 
D 
Dm 
what's happening right now
D 

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Verse 2
Dm 
D 
When you come over here,
G 
you lose a whole day
Bb 
A 
You'll never get it back until
G 
D 
you get back that way
G 
Out in the ocean they drew a date line
Bb 
A 
Use your imagination,
G 
F 
you can stop time
Bb 
A 
Time stands still when you ima
G 
D 
G 
Bb 
A 
gine that line
G 
D 
Just imagine it!
G 
Bb 
A 

Verse 3
G 
D 
G 
Well, he's in some mower,
Gm 
just a few- hour flight
D 
From the chicken days in Tongo, but
A 
D 
it's never quite right
G 
Gm 
Always hands the flowers, all of her day
A 
But that man up in the morrow,
else is just a day
'Cause when you day to cross the date line,

Verse 4
it's never the day
D 
G 
After a while, it's all a disaster
Bb 
A 
That's when yesterday starts
G 
D 
to feel like the day after
G 
You factor in time zones
and do all the math
Bb 
A 
And you equit the widow- wa ter
G 
D 
Dm 
dreams down in the bath
D 

Verse 5
D 
When I come up, baby,
G 
back home there in L.A
Bb 
A 
That's all already happened,
G 
D 
so there's not a lot to say
G 
If I die here in Sydney, I tell her on the phone
Bb 
A 
I can 't redeem the day I lost,
G 
Dm 
and she'll be all alone
I won't get that day back till
G 
D 
G 
they ship my ashes home

Interlude 1

All my ashes!

Verse 6
G 
Remove your wrist watch
Gm 
and clunk your digital clock
D 
Dm 
If you don't wanna suf
fer from a temporal shock
D 
G 
The fu ture's secure though,
Gm 
forever somehow
A 
It's already over, what's going on now
It's already happened,
what's happening right now
Am 
That's right, now,