Up On The Shelf chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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I used to play the trumpet

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once but now I play guitar

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Somebody told you it's

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more mellow.

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Well I've played a lot of music since but I

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really haven't grown that far

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Somebody said that you're

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just yellow.

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So I keep it

Verse 2

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up on the shelf

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And it's funny how you

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keep it all to yourself

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Hey honey, could there ever be,

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Should there ever be,

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Could there ever be something

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else?

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Verse 3

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You know I used to swing my silver sword,

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the dragons hit the ground

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Whatever happened to the maidens?

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Well I'd swing my silver sword again

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and they would all fall down

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Would you leave them lying there

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where you had laid them?

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And I used to have a

Verse 4

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country once,

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where it's gone I do not know.

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Where do you think you

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might have lost it?

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I used to raise the flag at dawn,

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but that was very long ago

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Maybe you can find it

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where you tossed it.

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Well I tossed it

Verse 5

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up on the shelf

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And it's funny how you've

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kept it all for yourself

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Hey honey, could there ever be,

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Should there ever be,

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Could there ever be something

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else?

Interlude 1

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Verse 6

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I used to say my prayers boys,

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I used to sing the hymns

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Even the echo's disappearing.

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F#dim

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They've broken the stained windows,

Ebdim

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the cathedral's getting dim.

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Then what is this dirge

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that we are hearing?

Verse 7

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Well it comes from up on the shelf

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And it's funny how you

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sing it only for yourself

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Hey honey, could there ever be,

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Should there ever be,

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Could there ever be something

else?

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Verse 8

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Well, I used to have a lover once,

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I used to have a friend

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How in the hell you ever

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find one?

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My song is almost over now, my

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story's at an end

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You lived yourself a good life

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but a blind one.

Verse 9

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Well I've hidden there

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up on the shelf

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And it's funny how you've

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kept it all for yourself

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Hey honey, could there ever be,

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Should there ever be,

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Could there ever be something

Outro 1

else?

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