Song For The Elderly chords by
The Axis Of Awesome

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Key: C major

Verse 1
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The old man sits
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on a chair in my lounge room
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G G 
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His face has seen years,
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His eyes have shed tears
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He's been through a lifetime,
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His friends have all gone
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He waits in his chair as I walk down the stair

Verse 2

He look up at me and his face forms a smile

His eyes fill with life as he notices me

His body is ancient, yet he looks so happy

He opens his mouth and greets me with glee

Verse 3
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I look at the old man, I smile politely
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I shake his leathery hand
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He gets to his to feet and I look in his eye
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I open my mouth and ad
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dress the old man

Verse 4

How did you get in my house, old man

I don't know who you are

You seem like a very sweet, nice, old man

But I don't know who you are

Verse 5
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The old man laughs and calls me Tobias
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He thinks it's a game when
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I say my real name
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He asks how my wife is
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and how are my children
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I tell him I'm single, He laughs it away

Verse 6
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He walks to the kitchen
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and he puts on the kettle
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He asks me if I want some tea
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I tell him okay and the water starts boiling
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He fills up my cup and
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hands it to me

Verse 7
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I'm sorry but that isn't milk, old man
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I still don't know who you are
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You've put mayonnaise
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in my tea old man
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And I  don't know who you are

Verse 8
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The old man stops,
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I think I've upset him
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His smile disappears,
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His eyes fill with tears
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He puts down the teacup,
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looks up  at me slowly
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And says "Dear Toby,
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I  Hate those Japs."

Verse 9
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I wander upstairs and
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I fetch some trousers
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He puts them on in the usual way
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He tells me that he doesn't
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know where he's going
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I say there's a room and that he can stay

Verse 10

You can live in my house old man

I don't care who you are

You're pretty racist but funny old man

And I quite like who you are

Verse 11

Yes I quite like who you are.

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