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Three Flights Up chords by
Don Mclean
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Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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On the first floor' On the first

floor

On the first floor there's

a young girl reeling

Her body's numb

and without feeling

As illusions dance on

the midnight ceiling

Now she's falling, now she's kneeling
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It's almost like she's bowed in prayer
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A sa vior she's about to bear
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She screams for help, but
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no one's there
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On the first floor

On the first floor people walk the

halls

But none can hear her desperate

calls

There is no sound beyond the

walls

So to the telephone she crawls

She telephones her only friend
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The one on whom she can depend
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But the phone rings on without an end
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Then rings no more
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On the first floor
Bm
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There's a party on the second floor
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And through the picture window
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you can see them all

They're laughing and they're
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dancing
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Admiring the Renoir
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that's hanging on the wall
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But in the master bedroom

where the coats are piled high

A silent, saddened lady thinks of what

it's like to die

And as she dwells on all the years she still
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has left to face
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She wonders how she'll ever find someone
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to take his place
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Then suddenly she's jarred
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by the ringing of the phone
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Oh, why do you ring now, just when I want
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to be alone?

So she walks into the bathroom and drinks
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some water from a cup
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But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up
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My family was very poor
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So I worked hard to be secure
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I married one I had to wed
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And not the one I loved in
Asus4
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stead

When I was young my blood

ran wild

But we stayed married for the child
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Now three flights up , I'm
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Bm
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all alone
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My wife is dead, my child is grown
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My daughter leads a wayward life
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She's been a failure as a wife
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And though she lives just
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one floor down
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She never calls or comes
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around


Step off the platform

and onto the train

Look out your window and into the rain

Watch all the buildings that
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pass as you ride

And count all the stories

that go on inside

And then ask yourself if it must
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be this way
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Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
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Separate us from each others' feelings?
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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • Am

  • A

  • F

  • C

  • G

  • Bm

    2

  • Em

  • Asus4

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Three Flights Up by Don McLean is Eb major.

The primary chords used in Three Flights Up are Eb, Bbm, Bb, Gb, Db, Ab.

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Yes, this version uses open chords like Eb, Bbm, Bb, Gb, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

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