I Was Beautiful chords by Tom Paxton

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Verse 1
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I   was beautiful,
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my Jackie told me so
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But that was long ago and far away
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But I   was beautiful,
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he was my soldier boy
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We had one taste of joy,
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then they sent him away
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And I was terrified,
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I sat up half my nights
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The radio said the fights were terrible,
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many were slain
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And then that golden day,
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I answered the telephone
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My soldier boy was home,
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home safe again
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And we went to the pictures,
C 
and we went to
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We had a life of our own,
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and lived life tacky and gay
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Oh, the summers came and went,
C 
and the children grew
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I was still beautiful to him,
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G 
Am 
and love was still new
We were older now,
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the children moved away
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Then came the longed -for day
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when Jackie retired
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At first he seemed content,
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he did some gardening
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There was a garden swing
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that he rewired
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But as the time went by,
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he seemed to drift away
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He found it hard to play attention,
his memory grew
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C 
dim the kids all rallied round
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they loved their daddy so he
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didn't seem to know
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they were strangers to him though
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we'd been to the pictures
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and we'd been to the sea
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we'd had a life of our own
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a little like Jackie and me
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Oh, the summers had come and gone
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and the children grew
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I was still beautiful
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G 
Am 
if your mad love was still new
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I was terrified and I was all alone
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The children had their homes,
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I know that's life
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And my soldier boy
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who used to kiss my hands
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Now fails to understand
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Am 
that I'm even his wife
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He sits and stares at me
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and there is nothing there
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He doesn't seem to care
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what happens to him or to me
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But I was beautiful, he was my soldier
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We had our taste of joy,
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in my own memory
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But did we go to the pictures,
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did we go to the sea?
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E 
Did we have a life of our own,
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my Jackie and me?
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Oh, the summers came and went,
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and the children grew
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Was I ever beautiful to him?
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Was love ever new?
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Was I ever beautiful to him?
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Was love ever new?
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you