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Shooting Star chords by
Harry Chapin
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Key: E minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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He was crazy of course
C
C

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From the first she must have known it
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D

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Bm
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2

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But still she went on with him
Verse 2
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G

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D
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And she never once had shown it
Em
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And she took him off the street
C
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And she dried his tears of grieving
Verse 3
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Bm
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She listened to his visions
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She believed in his believe-ins
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Oh,
Verse 4
C
C

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Oh, he was the sun
burning bright and brittle
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D

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And she was the moon shining
C
C

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back his light a little
He was a shooting star
Bm
Bm
2

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She was softer and more slowly
Verse 5
A
A

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He could not make things possible
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C

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Em
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But, she could make them holy
He was dancing to some music
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C

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No one else had ever heard
Verse 6
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D

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Bm
Bm
2

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He'd speak in unknown languages
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G

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She would translate every word
Bm
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2

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Em
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And then when the world was laughing
C
C

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At his castles in the sky
Verse 7
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D

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Bm
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2

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She'd hold him in her body
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G

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Em
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Till he once again could fly
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C

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Oh, he was the sun burning
bright and brittle
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D

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And she was the moon shining
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C

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back his light a little
Verse 8
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C

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He was a shooting star
Bm
Bm
2

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She was softer and more slowly
A
A

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He could not make things possible
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C
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But, she could make them holy
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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G

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Well, she gave him a daughter
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And she gave him a son
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She was a mother, and a wife,
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And a lover when the day was done
Verse 10
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He was too far gone for giving love
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D

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What he offered in its stead
Bm
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2

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Was the knowledge she
was the only thing
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That was not in his head
Interlude 2
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D
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Em
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Verse 11
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He took off East one morning
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C

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Towards the rising sun's red glow
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D

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Bm
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2

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She knew he was going nowhere
G
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But of course she let him go
Bm
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2

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And as she
Verse 12
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stood and watched
him dwindle
C
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Much too empty to be sad
D
D

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Bm
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2

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He reappeared beside her saying,
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Em
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"You're all I've ever had"
Verse 13
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Oh, he was the sun burning
bright and brittle
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D

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And she was the moon
shining back his light a little
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He was a shooting star
Bm
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She was softer and more slowly
Verse 14
A
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He could not make things possible
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2

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C
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But, she could make them holy
Holy
Em
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