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My Favorite Spring

My Favorite Spring easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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  • G

  • Em

  • C

  • A

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • B

    2
  • G

  • Em

  • C

  • A

  • D

  • Bm

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    2
  • Verse 1
    G
    Em
    G
    Em

    I used
    G

    to play baseball,
    C
    G

    I used to want to play
    A

    People all said I had to be a

    winner someday

    We played on the sand lots
    Em
    G

    and the gravel schoolyards
    C

    I once had a tryout
    D
    G
    Em

    with the same bluey car
    G

    The Cardinals said, young 'un,
    D

    we sure like your arm
    G

    We believe you can make it,
    A

    we'll send you down to the farm

    You need a little seasonin' play,
    Em

    a little double -A
    G
    C

    We'll give you a chance

    to show
    D
    G

    how much you wanna play
    Em

    And that was my favorite spring,
    C

    I could do anything
    A

    For six feet tall and lean,
    D

    I was just seventeen
    G

    My fastball was nothing but smoke,
    Em

    my curveball snapped and broke
    C

    My change had made them look bad,
    D
    G
    Em
    G

    they couldn't hit a thing I had
    Em

    G

    I was pitching down in Houston,
    Bm
    G

    I was do ing really well

    I was in the rotation,
    A

    I was givin' them hell

    I threw a two -hitter,
    Em
    G

    you oughta heard people shout
    C

    The very next morning,
    D
    G
    Em

    Korean War broke out
    G

    On the spur of the moment,
    B
    G

    I didn't have any plan

    I went and joined the Air Force,
    A

    I wound up in Japan

    I pitched for the squadron,
    Em
    G

    then we toured all the camps
    C

    We didn't have any problems,
    D
    G

    we were all Far East champs
    Em

    An d that was my favorite strength,
    C

    I could do anything
    A
    D

    For six feet tall and lean,

    I was just seventeen
    G

    My fastball wasn't nothing but smoke,
    Em

    my curveball snapped and broke
    C

    My change that made them look bad,
    D
    G
    Em
    G

    they couldn't hit a thing I had
    Em

    G

    I was throwing on no hitter
    C
    G

    the day MacArthur got fired

    The book going down like ten pins
    A

    really had him wired

    The bottom of the seventh
    Em
    G

    throwing easy as can be
    C

    Something snapped in my shoulder
    D
    G
    Em

    and that was all she wrote for me
    G

    So I fetched up a service
    C
    G

    and I moved back down here

    Married a fine woman
    A

    and I found a new career

    We had us a young son
    Em

    and we watched Jimmy grow
    G
    C
    B

    And the first time he asked
    C
    D
    G

    I taught him everything I know
    Em

    And this is my favorite strength
    C

    He can do anything
    A
    D

    For six feet tall and lean

    He's just seventeen
    G

    His fastball gives him the shakes
    Em

    His curveball snaps and breaks
    C

    His change, it makes him look bad
    D
    G

    People say he takes after his dad

    Thank you
    D
    A

    Thanks very much

    I didn't write any campaign songs

    back in 88
    G
    A

    Nobody switched me on enough

    to cause me to do that
    G

    And besides, I had already my generic campaign song,

    which I wrote years ago, to be able to sing in
    Em

    any kind of election campaign,

    state, local, federal, it didn't matter.

    And it was designed for that, frankly,

    because I reached a point back there

    about 10 years or so ago

    when I got a little fed up with writing

    songs

    for my kind of presidential candidates

    who were invariably out

    of money

    and out of the race by the Iowa caucus,

    leaving me stranded with

    a song

    and no one for whom to sing it.

    And I just, I don't know, I just thought to myself,

    I got to get a little less specific

    with these things.

    General principles,

    I said, that's what I'll do.

    I will write an all -encompassing,

    all -embracing political song

    which I can always do.

    And the way I'll do that, I said,

    it's going to take some broad strokes.

    I'll have to plumb down there

    to the depth of bedrock

    of American political thought

    and get down there to the very heart and soul,


    the root and branch

    of American political philosophy,

    where I found absolutely

    nothing.

    Came back up,

    wrote a superficial whiz,

    which has been working just fine

    for about, as I say, about 10 years.


    Now, of course, I do always hesitate to sing the song in California,


    where I know that politics

    had generally conducted

    on a much loftier moral plane

    than most others.

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