Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean chords by Paul Simon
Intro 1
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C
Verse 1
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Once upon a time there
was an ocean
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But now it's a mountain range
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C
Something unstoppable set into motion
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Nothing is different,
D
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but everything's changed
Verse 2
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It's a dead end job,
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and you gets tired of sittin'
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And it's like a nicotine habit you're
D
always thinking about quittin'
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I think about quittin' every
day of the week
When I look out my window
D
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it's brown and it's bleak
Verse 3
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Outta here
How am I gonna get outta here?
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D
I'm thinking outta here
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When am I gonna get outta here?
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And when will I cash in my lottery ticket
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And bury my past with
D
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my burdens and strife?
I want to shake every limb
in the garden of Eden
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C
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C
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And make every love the love of my life
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I figure that once upon a
Verse 4
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time I was an ocean
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But now I'm a mountain range
C
Something unstoppable set into motion
G
Nothing is different,
D
but everything's changed
G
Verse 5
Found a room in the heart of the city,
down by the bridge
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Hot plate and TV and beer in the fridge
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But I'm easy, I'm open, that's my gift
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I can flow with the traffic,
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I can drift with the drift
Home again?
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Naw, never going home again
Think about home again?
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I never think about home
Verse 6
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D
C
But then comes a letter from home
D
G
The handwriting's fragile and strange
C
G
C
Something unstoppable set into motion
G
Nothing is different,
D
G
but everything's changed
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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The light through the stained
glass was cobalt and red
And the frayed cuffs and collars were
mended by haloes of golden thread
C
The choir sang,
"Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean"
And all the old hymns and family names came
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fluttering down as leaves of emotion
Verse 8
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As nothing is different, but
Outro 1
everything's changed
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Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
Paul Simon
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