The Moment Slipped Away chords by 
Christine Lavin 
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Key: Db major•
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Verse 1
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She's a famous actress,
movies and TV.
I recognize her
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as we climb the stair s of the I .R .T.
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We cross the street together,
we're movin' up Broadway
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I'm trying to come up with
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something clever I can say
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About how I love her work,
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an d what it means to me
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How in her most re cent film
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she acted brilliantly
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May be she'll think I'm stu pid,
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maybe this'll make her day
But she disappeared into the crowd
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and the moment slipped
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away.
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He works the wards of
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Bellevue Hos pital,
the mail delivery.
For two years every weekday morning
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he said hello to me.
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We'd joke about the local teens,
the weather of the day
Though there were many other things
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I really wanted to say
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You see, he wasn't like the rest of us
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It was a struggle for him to walk
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And you had to concentrate really hard
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just to understand and talk
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I wanted to ask him,
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will you get the courage
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To come to work each day?
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But I quit that job, I moved along,
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and the moment slipped away.
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Kind words don't move the earth,
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but if they can im prove
your self -worth,
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why do I let these mo ments pass me by?
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In stead I'm quick to judge
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and I'm quick to blame
I'm quick to criticize,
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quick to maim, it's hard to chain
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But I'll try, oh I'll try
So maybe it's your best friend
or the next stranger you see
Maybe it's your neighbor,
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maybe it's you,
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maybe it's me.
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Who needs to hear encouragement
to make it through the day?
Who needs to hear
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whatever kind words you
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might have to say?
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It doesn't matter where you're going
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or where you have been.
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Cause right now is the per fect moment
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for us to begin
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To appre ciate each other
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in new and different ways
Oh please don't let another golden
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mo ment slip away
Appreciate each other more
and more each day
Oh please don't let another golden mo
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ment slip away you
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