Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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Cm
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There
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Pic tures of the family,
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Mostly my kids but there's an old
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You were five and I was six
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In 1952
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How could it be true?
Verse 2
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At a table meant for cards,
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Cm
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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 col ors oh so bright,
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In a picture in a plastic frame,
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A snapshot black and white.
Verse 3
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Watching what I drew
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Thirteen months more
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than you.
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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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Gm
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Verse 4
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To watch what he can do,
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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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Of our old Chevrolet
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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.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Cm Ab Bb Gm
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