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