It Could Have Been Paradise chords by The Magnetic Fields
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Verse 1
(A minor) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major) We lived in Pai (A minor) a
(C major) Hippie central,
(G major) (C major) I could hop to the beach (D major)
(G major) Sometimes we would (A minor)
(C major) hitchhike
Miles to school, (G major)
(C major) school being a figure of speech
(D major) Where (G major) we sang (D major) (kahuli aku, kahuli mai)
Verse 2
We (F major) lived on a (A minor) (C major) zendo
In the (Csus2) forest,
(G major) (C major) si lence for days on en (D major) d
(G major) Caught up on my (A minor) reading
(C major) Huckleberry (G major) (C major) Finn was my only friend (D major)
(G major) It could have been (A minor) paradis
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Verse 3
(F major) e
But for (G major) the horrible bug (D major) s
I could have gone to a (A minor) real school (F major)
But for the (C major) murderous thug (G major) s
In the forest of (A minor) paradis (F major) e
We gathered (G major) magic mush (D major) rooms
But mostly I (A minor) sat around (F major)
In rooms as (C major) quiet as tomb (G major) s
It was heaven (D minor) (D major)
My mother (D minor) then took (A minor) up
Verse 4
with
(C major) A trumpeter,
(G major) (C major) red beard and pork pie hat (D major)
(G major) Found a lyric (A minor) of mine
(C major) He took (G major) it home (C major) and set
music to that (D major)
(G major) To impress my (A minor) mother
(C major) He stole my song. (G major) (C major) Better back off, mister (D major)
(G major) Fast forward two (A minor) decades
(C major) Same thing happene (G major) d (C major) but with
Shakespeare's sister (D major)
Why (G major) should it be
Verse 5
(A minor) paradis (F major) e?
That's just a (G major) place people go (D major)
It was home for a (A minor) little while (F major)
But you can (C major) give me the snow (G major)
Give me the snow (D major)
My friend (D minor) Shell was (A minor) named for
Verse 6
A (C major) shell on the beach. She spoke
pidgin English (D major)
(G major) Everyday I (A minor) swam out
(C major) Onto the reef, (G major) (C major) catching exotic (D major) fish
Verse 7
It (G major) could have been (A minor) paradis (F major) e
With one good (G major) reason to stay (D major)
If it had been (A minor) paradis (F major) e
Guess we'd still (C major) be there today (G major)
Singing away (D major)
It Could Have Been Paradise
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