Picture chords by Loudon Wainwright III

SimplifiedD · Bm · G · A · F#m

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Verse 1
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There
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are pictures on the piano,
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Pictures of the family,
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Mostly my kids but there's an old
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Picture of you and me.
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You were five and I  was six
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In 1952
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That was forty years ago
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How could it be true?

Verse 2
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We were sitting outside drawing
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At a table meant for cards,
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And it must have been in autumn,
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Falling leaves in the front yard,
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With  a shoe box full of crayons,
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Full of colors oh so bright,
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In a picture in a plastic frame,
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A  snapshot black and white.

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Verse 3
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You were looking at my paper,
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Watching what I drew
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It was natural: I was older,
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Thirteen months more
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than you.
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A brother and a sister,
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A little boy and girl,
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And whoever took that picture
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Captured our own world.

Interlude 1

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Verse 4
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A brother needs a sister
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To watch what he can do,
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To protect and to torture,
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To boss around—it's true
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But a brother will defend her
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For a sister's love is pure,
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Because she thinks he's wonderful
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When he is not so sure.

Verse 5
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In the picture there's a fender
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Of our old Chevrolet
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Or Pontiac—our dad would know,
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Surely he could say
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But   dad is dead and we grow old
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It's true that time flies by
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And in forty years the world has changed
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As well as you and I.