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