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The Obvious Child chords by 
Paul SimonSting 
N/A•
Key: Ab major•BPM: 187
Verse 1
G
Well I'm accustomed to the smooth
ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
C
I don't expect to be treated
F
like a fool no more
C
G
I don't expect to
D
sleep through the night
G
D
G
D
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie
G
C
But I say, "why
F
C
Why deny the obvious child?
F
C
Why deny the obvious child?"
G
Verse 2
D
G
And in remembering a road sign
D
G
D
I'm remembering a girl when
G
C
I was young
F
C
And we said,
G
D
G
"these songs are true
D
G
These days are ours
D
G
These tears are free"
C
And hey
F
C
The cross is in the ballpark
F
C
G
The cross is in the ballpark
Verse 3
We had a lot of fun
D
C
Had a lot of money
G
We had a little son and we thought
D
C
we'd call him Sonny
D
G
Sonny gets married and moves away
C
D
G
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
C
D
Sonny gets sunnier
G
C
D
Day by day by day by day
Interlude 1
G
D
G
Well, I've been waking up at sunrise
Verse 4
D
I've been following the
G
light across my room
D
C
I watch the night receive the
F
C
G
D
G
room of my day
D
Some people say the sky is just the sky
G
C
But I say
F
C
"Why deny the obvious child?
F
C
Why deny the ob vious child?"
Interlude 2
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
D
G
C
Sonny sits
Verse 5
G
C
G
D
by his window
C
and thinks to himself
G
D
How it's strange that some
C
rooms are like cages
G
D
Sonny's yearbook from high school
C
Is down on the shelf
G
D
And he idly thumbs
C
through the pages
Am
Some have died
G
Some have fled from themselves
C
G
D
Or struggled from here to
G
D
get there
C
G
Sonny wanders bey
D
C
ond his interior walls
G
C
G
Runs his hands through his
D
C
thinning brown hair
Verse 6
G
Well, I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
D
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
I don't expect to be treated
C
F
like a fool no more
D
I don't expect to sleep the night
G
D
G
Some people say a lie is just a lie
D
G
C
But I say
F
C
"The cross is in the ballpark
F
C
G
Why deny the obvious child?"
Outro 1
G
D
D
D
G
D
G
C
D
G
C
D
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