This Shirt chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Intro 1

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This shirt is old and faded

Verse 1
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All the color's washed away
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I've had it now for more damn years
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Than I can count anyway
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I wear it beneath my jacket
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With the collar turned up high
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So old I should replace it
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But I'm not about to try
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Verse 2
This shirt's got silver buttons
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And a place upon the sleeve
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Where I used to set my heart    up
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Right there anyone could see
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This shirt is the one I wore to every
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boring high school dance
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Where the boys ig nored the girls
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And we all pretended to like
the band
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Verse 3
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This shirt was a pillow for my head
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On a train through Italy
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This shirt was a blanket beneath the love
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We made in Argeles
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This shirt was lost for three whole days
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In a town near Buffalo
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'Till I found the locker key
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In a downtown Trailways bus depot
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Verse 4
This shirt
was the one I lent you
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And when you gave it back
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There was a rip inside     the sleeve
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Where you rolled your cigarettes
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It was the place I put my heart
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Now look at where you put a tear
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I forgave your thoughtlessness
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But not the boy who put it there

Verse 5
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This shirt was the place your cat
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Decided to give birth to five
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And we stayed up all night watching
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And we wept when the last one died
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This shirt is just an old faded
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piece of cotton
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Shining like the memories
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Inside those silver buttons
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Verse 6
This shirt is a grand old relic
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With a grand old history
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I wear it now for Sunday chores
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Cleaning house and  raking leaves
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I wear it beneath my jacket
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With the collar turned up high
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So old I should re place it
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But I'm not about to try