Obvious Child chords by
Craig Cardiff

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Key: Gb major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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I'm accustomed
D D 
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to a smaller life
Maybe I want all the flaws in sight
I don't expect to be
G G 
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treated like a fool no more
D D 
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I don't expect to sleep
through the night
Some people say lies and lies and lies
G G 
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But I say, why,
if I did not have the obvious child
D D 
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Why did not I have the obvious child?
I am remembering a roadside
I am remembering a girl
G G 
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when I was young, young
D D 
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Where we said, songs are true,
these days are ours,
G G 
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these tears are free
Crosses in the ballpark,
crosses in the ballpark
D D 
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G G 
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Had a lot of fun, had a lot of money
D D 
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Had a little son,
G G 
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thought we'd call him Sonny
A A 
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D D 
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Sonny gets married and moves away
G G 
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A A 
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Sonny has a baby and
D D 
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bills  to pay
G G 
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A A 
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D D 
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G G 
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Sonny gets sunny and day by day,
A A 
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D D 
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by day, by day, by day
I've been waking up at sunrise,
I've been following the light across the room.
G G 
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I watch the night
D D 
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to see the bloom of my day.
Some people say the sky is just the sky,
G G 
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but I say, why deny the obvious,
child?
D D 
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Quite another obvious child
A A 
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Sonny sits by his window
G G 
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And thinks to himself
D D 
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How it's strange that some
A A 
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G G 
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Are like cages
D D 
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A A 
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Sonny's yearbook from high school
G G 
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Is down from his chair
D D 
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A A 
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G G 
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The idyllic thumbs through the pages
Bm Bm 2
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Some have died,
D D 
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some have fled from themselves
G G 
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D D 
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A A 
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Struggle from here to get there
Bm Bm 2
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A A 
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D D 
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A A 
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Son, he wanders bey
G G 
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ond his interior walls
D D 
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Runs his hands through his
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G G 
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thinning brown hair
D D 
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I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Or maybe I'm a dog that's lost its bite
I don't expect to be
G G 
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treated like a fool no more
D D 
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I don't expect to sleep
through the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
G G 
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But I say why?
The cross is in the ballpark
And why deny the obvious,
D D 
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G G 
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child?
Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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A A 
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D D 
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D D 
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