Key: Ab major
Intro 1
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E#m
Verse 1
Cm
Every
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one knows him as old folks
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C#
Like the seasons he'll come
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and he'll go
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Just as free as a bird,
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B
and as good as his word
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A#m
That's why everybody
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loves him so
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B
Put s his napkin
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up under his chin
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D#m
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An d that yellow car pipe,
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B
A#
it's so mellow it's ripe,
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A#m
be ashamed of him.
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D#m
E#dim
In the evening af
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G#m
B
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ter supper,
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D#m
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B
A
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what stories he would tell.
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E#m
C#
How he held a speech at Gettysburg
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Eb
for Lincoln that day.
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Eb
Ab
I know that one so well,
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F
don't quite understand
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Db
about old folks,
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Bbm
did he fight
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Fm
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D#m
for he's so diplomat
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B
ic and so democratic
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D#m
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we always let him have
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his way.
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old folks.
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B
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What a sad old town this will be.
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D#m
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Children's voices at play
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will be still for a day.
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E#m
The day they take old folks
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The day they take old folks away.
Outro 1
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C#
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