Stranger With the Melodies chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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It was my first

night in that rooming house

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In the last room down the hall

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I heard a hoarse voice

and an old guitar

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Coming through the paper thin walls

Verse 2

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A crazy nonsense nursery rhyme

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That did not mean a thing

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But for the first of what was

to be a thousand times

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This is what I hear him sing

Verse 3

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Hold that D chord on the old guitar

'Til I found the G

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Drop it down to old E minor

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'Til the A chord rolls

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back home around to D

Verse 4

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I had to lay there listening

F#m

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It seemed he was in the room

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This stranger with his melody

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Singing there in the gloom

Verse 5

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And he repeated it over and over again

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Such a soft and sinkin' sound

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It was kind of like a music box

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That was slowly winding down

Verse 6

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You see, he sang it, he hummed it

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Whistled it, and he strummed it

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He laughed it and he cried it

Asus4

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He did everything but hide it

Asus4

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And he sang

Verse 7

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Hold that D chord on the old guitar

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'Til I found the G

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Drop it down to old E minor

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'Til the A chord rolls back home

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around for me

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Asus4

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Verse 8

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So I lay there in that lumpy bed

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Countin' choruses instead of sheep

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'Til I banged on the wall

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and out I called

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"Hey bub, I need some sleep"

Verse 9

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The sudden void of silence

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Then I heard that hoarse voice say

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"It weren't so long ago, boy

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Asus4

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They paid me to play "

Verse 10

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I said, "It's kind of late for music, sir

F#m

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Two hours 'til it's daylight"

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He answered, "I need my music most

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In these dark hours of the night

Verse 11

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You see I've tried gettin'

high on something son

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But it only brings me down

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Staying dry don't work out better,

boy

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'Cause my eyes get wet

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and I drown

Verse 12

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Won't you please let me continue

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And I'll be in your debt?

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You see I'm not singing

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to remember, son

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Asus4

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I'm just singing to forget"

Verse 13

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And he sang

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Hold that D chord on the old guitar

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'Til I found the G

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'Til the A chord rolls back home around

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for me

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Asus4

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Verse 14

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That's when I said

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"If I'm supposed to listen to you sir

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Just one quick question then

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Why in the hell do you sing one song

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Over and over again?"

Verse 15

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And this is what he said

He said, "I gave her the music, son

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She gave me the words

Together we'd write the kind of songs

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Asus4

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The angels must have heard

Verse 16

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Of course we'd fight like cats and dogs

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But life ain't no rosebud dream

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Still whatever we'd do everybody knew

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We truly were a team

Verse 17

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I can't remember now if I done her wrong

F#m

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Or if she done wrong to me

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But all I know that when I let her go

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That it did not set me free''

Verse 18

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That's when I said,

"You sound like what's-his-name"

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He He He said, "That's who I am

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But you can't wrap a name around you,

boy

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'Cause it really don't

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mean a damn"

Verse 19

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"You see, a song don't

have much meaning

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When it don't have nothing to say

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What she could do was magic, son

Asus4

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All I could do was play"

Verse 20

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He started singing again

That's when I drifted off

F#m

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Maybe I dreamed what I heard

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'Bout this stranger with his melody

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Who'd gone and lost the words

Verse 21

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Hold that D chord on the old guitar

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'Til I found the G

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Drop it down to old E minor

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'Til the A chord rolls back

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home around to D

Outro 1

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TunerE A D G B E

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ChordsEm D G A F#m...

Em
D
G
A
F#m
Bb
F
Am
C
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Em
D
G
A
F#m
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C
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