Star 69 chords by
Christine Lavin

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Key: E major

Verse 1
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It used to be so easy to
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use the telephone.
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You'd pick it up and dial,
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and they would answer if they were home.
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But then the an swering machine
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helped us cut the cord.
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Now callers could be screened,
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or better yet, ignored.
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Then came call waiting.
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Ah, we don't let that upset us.
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Though I have come to call,
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call waiting, chat us, interrupt us.
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But there's a brand new service.
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It's called Star 69.
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It redials the last person who called
you
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and puts them back on the line.
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There's call forwarding,
there's beepers,
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there's call conferencing
and such.
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Hey, panoply of choices.
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Sometimes it's all too much.
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You see, there was a sweet young girl,
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so trusting, so naive.
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You could tell her anything
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and she would believe.
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She met a computer repairman,
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his name was Jim,
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and  it was just a matter of time
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before she truly cared for him.
Though he crisscrossed the country,
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he'd see her whenever he could.
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She grew to love him deeply,
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thought him kind,
and thought him good.
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But there was one thing about him
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she considered  a minor quirk.
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He  said he had no home phone,
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she must contact him at work.
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Then it was his beeper number
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he instructed her to dial.
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He'd always call her back
so fast
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his haste would make her smile.
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They carried on for months like this
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until one rainy day.
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She called him on the beeper.
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He did not call back right away.
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But when he did,
she heard background noises
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that made her suspicious.
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Was that babies crying?
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Was that someone doing dishes?
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When they hung up,
she sat and pondered
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for quite some time.
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Then with shaky hand,
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she dialed star 69.
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A woman answered the telephone.
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The young girl asked for Jim,
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then quickly added, Who is this?
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The woman said, I'm married to him.
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The conversation that followed
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was the kind that men most dread.
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The young girl told the wife
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everything her husband  ever said, or ever did,
or bought, or promised her.
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Then the wife had her say too
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About the three young children
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And how her income
pulled them through.
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They talk, they cry, they talk, they laugh
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Now you could say he's in a bind
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All because the phone company
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has given us star sixty -nine.
Modern conveniences can help you
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But they can backfire
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If you are the kind of person
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who is a liar.
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In this global village,
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it is best to tell the truth.
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And beware if someone's
courting you
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from a telephone booth.
Yes, in this global village,
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take this as a sign.
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Remember that repairman in Star 69.
you

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