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Elliott Murphy
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Key: F# minor•
Intro 1
Em
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F#m
F#m
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Verse 1
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We're crawling into my apartment
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It must have been 10 AM
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My stomach's turnin',
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my head is spinnin'
F#m
F#m
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I can't breathe, no oxygen
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And I swear this'll be the last time
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D

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Though I swear it ain't the first,
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D

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how come every time
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I start feeling bet ter,
F#m
F#m
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I start acting worse?
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D

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Cause people don't learn,
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D

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people don't learn,
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D

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people don't learn
F#m
F#m
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Nothing but a lesson
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D

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The lives of the po ets
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The great painters,
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They say most of them,
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they were short lives
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F#m
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I wonder, is that really true?
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Didn't they dream of the children
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running through a green lawn
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With the sun shining so
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brightly up above
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Instead of calling it a dawn
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But people don't learn,
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people don't learn
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People don't learn
F#m
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nothing but a lesson
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And I remember everything,
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things that we do to pretend
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we are king
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And as the nights go by
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And I watch the stars
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disappear from the sky
D#
D#
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High, high, high
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I'm coming home from my trip
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And telephoning what's new
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Somebody says Tom Baker died
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Oh my God, is that really true?
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He could have been some kind of act or
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Or maybe me too, yeah
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And you know all I could ever do
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is stand back and look
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Cause people don't learn
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People don't learn
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People don't learn
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F#m
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Nothing but a lesson
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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • Em

  • D

  • Fm

  • F#m

    2

  • G

  • C

  • D#

    6

Capo: 2

Transpose: 0

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The original key of People Don't Learn by Elliott Murphy is F# minor.

The primary chords used in People Don't Learn are F#m, E, Gm, G#m, A, D.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like F#m, E, Gm, G#m, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of People Don't Learn is approximately 65 beats per minute.

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