Folk Singer chords by
Burl Ives
Burl Ives

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Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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As I walk these narrow streets,
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where a million passing feet
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have trot before me
With my guitar in my hand,
suddenly I realized,
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my God, nobody knows me
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Where yesterday the multitude screamed
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and cried my name out for a song
Today the streets are empty
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and the crowds they've all gone home
With the rain upon my face,
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there's no place where I belong
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And my whole life consists of a story,
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a poem, and a song
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Ah, the truths I tried to tell you
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Are as distant as the moon
Born two hundred years too late
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And two hundred
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years too soon
I'm a child of this age
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Locked inside the pages of a book
And when I am but dust and clay
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And other children stop to take a look
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Will they marvel at the
miracles I did perform
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And to the heights I did as pire?
Or will they tear out the pages of the book
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to light a fire?
With the rain upon my face,
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there is no place where I belong

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F# F#sus4