The Grocer's Broom chords by Richard Shindell
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Intro 1
(G major) (C major) (C minor) (G major) (A major) (A minor)
(E minor) (Dsus4) (D major)
Verse 1
The grocer's broom, (G major)
back and forth
Glides (C major) across the (C minor) warn
wooden (G major) floor (C major) (G major)
He stirs the dust (C major) of the day
Counts the change before
clos (D major) ing the drawer (G major)
Thirty years (E minor) out the door
Because the land (A major) lord wanted five
hun (B minor) dred more (C major)
(G major) (A minor)
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Verse 2
(D major)
Some (G major) stop by the store
Just to (C major) see if he's (C minor) doing OK (G major) (C major) (G major) (A minor)
(G major) It's a crime, (C major) it's a shame
This old neighborhood
won't be (D major) the same (G major)
You could take (E minor) a lazy cruise
(G major) Over (A major) five thousand fathoms of (C major) blue (G major) (A minor)
To pass (D major) those
Verse 3
(G major) idle days
I (B major) suppose I've worked enough
for one life (C major) anyway (G major) (A minor)
I've earned (D major) these idle (G major) (Gsus4) eays (G major)
Verse 4
(C major) He (C minor) (G major) (D major) shuts the light, (G major)
says goodnight
Makes his way (C major) up the wide
boulevard (G major)
He stops to talk (C major)
- farethewell, take good care
It's a beau (D major) tiful (G major) night
High above, (E minor) a million stars
The city blocks (A major) seem like five
million (C major) more (G major) (A minor)
Than (D major) a few hundred yard (G major) s
(C major) (C minor) (G major) (A major) (A minor)
(E minor)
Verse 5
(D major)
He climbs the stoop, (G major) finds the key
And passes into the (C minor) dark
living- room (C major) (C minor) (G major)
(A minor) He (G major) sees the old (C major) sunken chair
Where silence sits playing (D major) her flute (G major)
He finds the tun (E minor) e, he hums along
She will (A major) teach him her five
hundred (C major) songs (G major) (A minor) (D major)
Verse 6
And (G major) they'll pass ...
Outro 1
(B major) (C major) (G major) (A minor)
(D major) (G major) (C major) (C minor) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major)
(A major) (A minor)
The Grocer's Broom
Richard Shindell
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