Key: F# major
Verse 1
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D
a pain to me
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D
So hard waiting to be grown
Childhood climbed up
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in a white oak tree
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I blinked once and it was gone
Verse 2
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Airplane flyin' across a midnight sky
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His tiny lights blinked off and on
I watched him move across
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Bm
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Well I blinked once
Verse 3
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Bm
Gone, gone, yeah
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D
I blinked once and it was gone
Verse 4
D
friends
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D
I called her my very own
D
Bm
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I blinked once
Verse 5
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Bm
Gone, gone, yeah
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I blinked once and it was gone
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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gamblin' wheel
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And I thought I was sittin' on a throne
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Big John told me 'bout his condo deal
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I blinked once and it was gone
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Verse 7
The nineteen seventies
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was ten long years
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D
Was ten long years to sing a song
It kicked off madly with a
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D
New Year's cheer
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I blinked once and it
Verse 8
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Bm
That's right, it was gone, gone, yeah
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I blinked once and it was gone
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Verse 9
Now old man's talkin' 'bout
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a gun he'd shot
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An' he weren't much more
Lyin' there breathin'
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on this worn out cot
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D
I blinked once and he was gone
Verse 10
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Bm
And he was gone, gone
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Bm
I blinked once and he was gone, gone
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I blinked once and he was gone,
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I blinked once and he was gone
Outro 1
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D
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G Bm A
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