Thirteen Summers chords by ROC

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Verse 1
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 (E major)  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) It  (A major) was my
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 (E minor) 13th summer.  (A major) 
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It was prob (E minor) ably
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Jun (A major) e.  (B minor)  (E minor) 32
Grant
Street down in
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Color (A major) ado.
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An (E minor) d I just remember, I was in my backyard,
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and  (A major) it  (E minor) was the coolest backyard.
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It  (A major) was  (E minor) just so simple, know, just,
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 (B major)  (A major) you know, white  (E minor) painted, wooden fence around  (B minor) it.  (E minor) 
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A big  (A major) tall tree, really skinny,  (E minor) and,
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the leaves were probably about 30 feet  (E major) up.  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) 
And the grass was just so green.
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We had tons of rose bushes  (A major) in it.
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 (E minor) An  d, you  (E major)  (B major)  (E major) know, right  (E minor) down the middle there was like this,
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 (A major) you know, probably about  (E minor) 8  (A major) to 10 rose  (E minor) bushes.
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and all around the edges  (A major) there was tons  (E minor) of flowers, you know,  (A major) black eyed seaweeds,
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tulips, irises,  (E minor) more rose bushes, and all sorts of stuff, and it was really  (D major) cool.  (E minor) 
I really liked it.
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An (A major) d  we had this swing set,  (D major) and  (A major) it  (D major)  (A major) was painted  (E major) like,  (A major) you know,
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a barber (E minor) shop  (A major) sort of thing, know, like, blue and white and red.
Kind of my younger brother when we used to play on it,
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and I  (E minor) was getting a bit old for it.
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But anyway, I was hanging  (A major) out in the  (E minor) backyard,
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 (A major)  (E minor) an (A major) d  my friend
Roxanne came over.
Her last name
Rose
Blue.
Roxanne
Rose
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Blue,  (E minor) where are you  (A major) today,  (E major) 
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I  (B major) wonder.  (B minor)  (B major) 
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And I always  (E major) remem (F sharp major) ber,  (A major) like, her really  (E minor) being  (A major) into boys,
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 (E minor) like, when we were about  (A major) 11  (E major) or  (E minor)  (G major)  (A major)  (E minor) 12.  (A major) 
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And I still  (E minor) wasn't really that remotely  (E major) interested,  (E minor) in fact,
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 (A major) I just was still into sort of kids' stuff, you  (E major) know?
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 (E minor) So I  (E major) just remember,  (E minor) I had finished elementary school,
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 (E major) and  (E minor) I was now go (A major) ing  (E minor) to  junior high  (E major) school.  (A major) 
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So I'm leaning on the back of our house, and I remember it's one of those white,  (G major) 
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 (A major)  (G major) sort  (E minor) of wooden boarded  (G major) house (E minor) s,  (F major) you know, like white (E minor) washed.
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And I just remem (E major) ber look (A major) ing up through  (F sharp major) the
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 (A major) leaves of that tree an (F sharp major) d   the sky was  (A major) just so
blue.
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And the light, just that pretty  (E major) white  (E minor) light,
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 (A major)  (E major) it makes  (E minor) you feel like  (G major)  (E minor)  (A major) completely  (F sharp major) transparent  (A major) 
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an (C major) d everything's  (A major) really
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pure  (G major) and  (E minor) clean.  (D major) 
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 (A major) And like the leaves sort of  (G major) like  (G minor) flickering,
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know, kind of this green  (G major) flicker.  (E major) 
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I just remember  (E minor) her sit (E major) ting on a  (G major) swing of
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a swing and just telling  (A major) me about what she's
up to.
She's sitting there talking to me,
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talk (E minor)  (A major) ing about  (E major) her new boyfriend, this guy called
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 (F major) Artie,
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 (A major) who's like half
Mexican and half
American
Indian.
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I  (E minor) mean, I'll meet them.
You know...
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 (A major) I'm trying to think about it.
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 (E minor) She was telling me about
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how she'd gone  (G major) to
Skate
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 (A major) City,
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roller  (E major) skating,
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 (A major) and I used to go there too.
And, um,
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 (E minor) anyway, she had gone up
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there  (A major) independently,
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and this guy  (E minor) already knew.
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 (E major) Rather than go (A major) ing there to  (E minor) ice skate,
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or not ice  (A major) skate, to roller skate,
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he  (E minor) had said to me,
you know,
I want you to follow me.
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 (E major) And,  (A major) you know, I'm sitting there,
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 (D major) you know,
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 (A major) leaning again (E major) st the back of my house,
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 (A major) and I'm going,
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what the hell is  (E minor) she talking about?
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 (A major) I  have no  (E minor) clue.
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 (A major) You  (E minor) know, something,
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 (A major) it was just really weird,
because if ever I think at one point
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in my whole  (E minor) life
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that things change, like,  (A major) a  real  (E major) subtle change,
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I  (G major) just thought to my (E minor) self,
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why  (G major) would anybody  (E major) want to do that?
I don't understand.
You know, here I was,
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you know, with this,  (A major) 
You know, sort of really naive,
kid's sort of way of thinking.
And here I had somebody telling
me about sexuality.
And you know something?
You know,
things just got a bit darker after that.
I think I forgot to ask somebody
first. was so shocked.
This is not how I imagined it.
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