Once Upon A Time chords by Barry Hay

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Verse 1
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 (E minor) Once upon a time, a long,
long time ago, there was a man.
He lived in a land called
Plague, in a town of moan and groan, streets filled with sorrow,
and death at your heels, death at your head.
A man was afraid to die
A man was afraid of tomorrow, yeah
So we sat down and thought it over
And he went a little insane
Now what's the use of life these days,
when it hangs on such fine string?
And one big question through his mind,
he just had to know
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Can  (C major) this be  (D major) my dy (E minor) ing day?
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 (C major) Will I  (D major) live tomor (E minor) row?
Yeah!
So a man picked up all his money
And took it to a nearby town
Went to see the jet sail
Whose fame had spread around
Fortune teller, tell me
Answer my question, please
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When's  (C major) to  (D major) be my dy (E minor) ing day?
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I'll  (C major) you hand (D major) somely  (E minor) 
So the lady rubbed her crystal ball
And man's knees began to shake
When she sang these few words silently,
he thought his nerves would break
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On the sev (A major) enth hour  (E minor) of the  (A major) seventh day  (E minor) of the  (A major) seventh  (E minor) week
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of the  (A major) seventh month  (E minor) of the  (A major) seventh year  (E minor) 
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Then's to  (D major) be your  (E minor) dying day
I've seen it crystal clear
So that night at strike of seven
He forgot about food and wine
Man hid away in the cellar and stayed
till the clock struck nine
More than six years passed this way,
man turned into a shadow
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Waiting  (C major) for  (D major) his dy (E minor) ing day,
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al (C major) ways fear (D major) ing tomor (E minor) row
Yeah!
Well, one day,
this woman could take no more
Something had to be done,
oh, she went
To see the same gypsy lady
That you would a consolation
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You can take my  (A major) hand  (E minor) 
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And you can  (D major) have my  (A major) eye (E minor) s
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And you can have my  (A major) heart  (E minor) 
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You can take my soul, just tell  (C major) me how  (D major)  (E minor) to  free my man,
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look into  (C major) your  (E minor) crystal ball.  (D major)  (E minor) 
You can tell man to worry no more
This is how it's going to be
You'll be the one to die first
And I must say,
you look pretty healthy to me
Some woman rushed back, fitted with joy
She was gonna save a man
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Whose  (C major) mind had drifted  (D major) far  (E minor) away
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But  (C major) this was his  (D major) last chance,  (E minor) yeah
When she got home,
the sun was going down
She stumbled into the cellar
And she told man what she had heard
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An (D major) d she said,  (E minor) all would be better
But man's face, it turned pale in the dark
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He  (D major)  (E minor) struck her till her eyes
could no more see
When
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 (C major) Prim passed  (D major) by late  (E minor) that night,
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Man was  (C major) hanging from the  (D major) big ol' tree,  (E minor) yeah!