Key: G majorDifficulty: Beginner
Verse 1
C
Pushing through the market square
Am
So many mothers sighing
D
News had just come over
F
We had five years left to cry in
C
News guy wept and told us
Am
Earth was really dying
D
Cried so much his face was wet
F
Then I knew he was not lying
C
I heard telephones,
opera house, favorite melodies
Am
I saw boys,
toys, electric electric irons and TV's
D
My brain hurt like a warehouse,
it had no room to spare
F
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
Dm
And all the fat, skinny people
F
Dm
And all the tall, short people
F
C
And all the nobody people
F
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And all the somebody people
Dm
F
I never thought I'd need so many people
Verse 2
C
A girl my age went off her head
Am
Hit some tiny children
D
If the Black hadn't have pulled her off
F
I think she would have killed them
C
A soldier with a broken arm
Am
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
D
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
F
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
C
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor
Am
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
D
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
F
Don't think you knew you were in this song
C
And it was cold and it rained,
so I felt like an actor
Am
And I thought of Ma and I wanted
to get back there
D
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
F
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
Bridge 1
C
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Am
Five years, what a surprise
D
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
F
Five years, that's all we've got
C
We've got five years, what a surprise
Am
Five years, stuck on my eyes
D
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
F
Five years, that's all we've got
C
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Am
Five years, what a surprise
D
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
F
Five years, that's all we've got
C
We've got five years, what a surprise
Am
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
D
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
F
Five years, that's all we've got
Outro 1
C
Am
(Five years, five years)
D
F
(Five years five years)
C
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