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perfect love chords by Marc Cohn

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Intro 1
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Down by the boathouse at Shaker
Verse 1
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Lake
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When there wasn't nothing
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but love to make,
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They were two young lovers wishing
on the stars above.
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Verse 2
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Well, they carved their initials
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in an old birch tree
With a heart and an arrow
and a 'sixty-three.
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You You had to be blind not to see
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It was a perfect love.
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Verse 3
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It was a perfect love.
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Ooh, yeah, yeah.
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Well, they worked one summer together
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at the '64 World's Fair.
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They met Robert Kennedy there.
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Well, that was
Right before the fall.
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Verse 4
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And they saved up a little bit of money for his career,
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And they talked about the future
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underneath the giant sphere.
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And all around them, the little
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voices were singing
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It's a small world after all.
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Yes it is, small world after all.
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And it was perfect love.
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Verse 5
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It was a perfect love.
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Ooh, yeah, yeah.
(Under the moon and stars above
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it was a perfect love)
Verse 6
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Now they were dizzy from dan
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cing on Rockaway Beach.
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They came to Rockaway.
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Yeah, and everything they dreamed
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of was still within reach
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Dreaming,
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dreaming as the years roll by,
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Like they always do.
Verse 7
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Well, they had their share of hard
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times, too.
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But whatever they were,
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they never let it get them down.
Verse 8
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Now, they just go walking
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down a country lane;
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See the leaves changing in the misty rain.
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And only one thing remains the same,
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whoa. Ooh, yeah, yeah.
Interlude 1
Just a perfect love
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Verse 9
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Ooh, yeah, yeah.
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(Under the moon and stars above it was a
Outro 1
perfect love)
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