Key: F major
Intro 1
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E
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E
Verse 1
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Oh Lord, I'm tired, it's
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time to go to bed,
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Way, after midnight,
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and the wine's gone to my head,
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F#
Lying here upon the shore just
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listening to the waves,
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Bsus4
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And it's been a perfect day.
Verse 2
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Packed up a picnic and set off for the sea,
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Taking all the back roads where
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no-one else else would be,
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F#
My and you and Paul and Sue,
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E
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How we laughed the time away,
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Bsus4
And we had a perfect day.
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G#sus4
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I brought along my old guitar,
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And ly ing there beneath the stars,
C#m
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A
We sang all the Beatle songs we knew,
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Lord you should have heard
those harmonies,
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E
When we did Nowhere Man and Let It Be
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A
E
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E
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E
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My love, if we should break up,
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Should we ever part,
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And you're searching for some memory,
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To help your aching heart,
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F#
Forget about the hurtful things,
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That lovers often say,
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And remember this perfect
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day.
G#sus4
Then people start coming
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around the fire,
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And I was strumming
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at my old guitar,
C#m
Trying to think of something
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everybody knew,
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And then you said "though it's far away,
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C#m
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A Christmas song would really make
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E
my day."
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Bsus4
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And everybody sang
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E
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F#
And all I really want to do,
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Is sing songs for you,
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Bsus4
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Then it's been a perfect day,
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E
Yes it's been a perfect day.
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