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