Once In A While chords by Maggie Boyle

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Verse 1
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Your children all are married and their own
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Are growing every day
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You see them from your tower all alone
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And your hair is turning grey
Your family is in the wild
Far beyond your care
Crazily the seasons twirl
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Till you can only stand and stare
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But once in a while
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You see it all so clearly
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Summon a smile in spite of all the pain
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You see through all the magic
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in imagination's gaze
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Once in a while, once in a while
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Light the pole and suckle on your breast
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In the days gone by
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Now tight your pole and
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buckle on your dress
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Bright you paint your eye
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You face the changes every day
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One by one you try
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But wild and strange they'll have their way
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Till you can only wonder why
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But once in a while,
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you see it all so clearly
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Summon a smile, in spite of all the pain
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You see through all the magic
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in imagination's games
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once in a while, once in a while
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Time was when you were
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the belle of the ball
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And you had every ballroom dancer
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at your beck and  call
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Now Lord knows you're both gone,
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there's no one at all
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To take the pretty wallflower
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and pluck it from the wall
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But once in a while
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you see it all so clearly
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Summon a smile in
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spite of all the pain
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You see through all the magic
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in imagination's game
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Once in a while, once in a while,
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Once in a while,
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once in a while.
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