Timothy chords by Rod MacDonald

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Verse 1
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 (G major)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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 (G major) Timothy the mirror maker  (D major) 
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Made a  (A major) very special  (D major) one for me
Now I can see with no disguise
How I look in someone's eyes
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 (G major) What it  (A major) is exactly that  (D major) they see
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 (G major) It was there when you came
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to  (D major) see me
Though you said you
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 (A major) couldn't  stay very  (D major) long
I saw that I will never touch
The woman that I love so much
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In  (G major) any way  (A major) I'm no longer  (D major) young
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 (F sharp minor) In your eyes  (B minor) my fingernails were dirty
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My  (F sharp minor) shirt is never gonna be  (B minor) in style
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 (E major) And if I lived to be  (A major) a hundred
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You'd  (E major) only look away
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At the  (A major) aging of my smile,
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 (G major) I put the mirror in the closet  (D major) 
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Locked  (E minor) the door  (D major) and hid the key
I knew that mirror wasn't lying
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And you will never  (F sharp minor) be     (D major) all mine
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But  (A major) it was something I didn't
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want  (D major) to see  (G major)  (D major) 
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Then  (B minor) one day I needed something
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I opened  (F sharp major) up that closet  (B minor) once again
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 (E major) Just then a stranger came to  (A major) visit
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That mirror  (E major) shone all day
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from the light on  (A major) my skin
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 (G major) In her eyes my  (D major) hands  were gentle
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But strong  (E minor) for the work they  (D major) have done
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And the smile there on my  (E minor) lips
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tasted  (D major) sweet to her kiss
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An (E minor) d I felt like I  (A major) always
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will be  (D major) young  (G major)  (D major) 
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Now  (F sharp minor) who   can  (F sharp major) say what the truth is
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 (B minor) The eyes will see what
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 (F sharp major) they want  (F sharp minor) to see  (B minor) 
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 (E minor) But  (E major) I  can't stay with you,  (A major) love
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Knowing  (E major) there's someone
there who sees
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The  (A major) me I want to be
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 (G major) Timothy, who makes the mirror  (D major) 
Has gone back to making
normal once again
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He  (A major) says no one really wants to know
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 (D major) What makes their loved ones come and go
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In  (E minor) fact it nearly  (A major) did his busi (D major) ness,
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yeah  (G major) 
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 (D major)  (A major)  (D major) 