What If We Went to Italy chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
What if we went to Italy
A suitcase of books and one
Am 
C 
bag a piece for the summer?
G 
I don't speak a word of Italian
D 
Except for Campari and soda for two
C 
How much is a Lire? Yes, a villa will do
G 
And a breeze in Tuscany please

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Verse 2
G 
What if we spent all of our days
Improving our minds,
C 
learning new ways to be lazy
G 
It wouldn't be too much of a strain
D 
Relax after breakfast till
lunch comes around
Can't wait for dinner; oh, I
C 
need to lie down
G 
And refuel out by the pool

Verse 3
C 
D 
What if the ancients were lazy like us
Bm 
Too blissed-out to to paint,
G 
Em 
Am 
to sketch, or to sculpt
B 
Just as relaxed as the tower of Pisa
Em 
G 
Not ever missing that old Mona Lisa

Verse 4
C 
D 
What if we never got back on the plane
Bm 
As summer turned colder
Em 
and then warmer again
Am 
D 
Losing all track of the passing of years
C 
D 
Till it no longer mattered how long we'd been

Interlude 1

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Verse 5
G 
Am 
G 
What if we went to Italy
Maybe next year,
C 
just you and me for the summer
G 
I still can't speak any Italian
D 
But words are replaced
under Siennese skies
C 
By nothing so much as a nod and a sigh
And a wish to be always like this