When I Was Little chords by Bert

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Dm
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C#m
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Esus4
F#sus4
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Verse 1
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 (A minor) Ernie? Yes Bert?
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When I was little, I used  (G major) to be afraid
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of be (F major) ing alone  (A minor) in  (F major) the  (E major) dark.
Oh, not you Bert.
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I'd  (A minor) pull the blankets up  (G major) over my head,
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and pray  (F major) that the sky  (C major) would soon  (F major) be light,  (C major) 
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and pray  (D minor) that it  (E major) soon would be light.  (A minor) 
Oh, I can't believe that Bert.
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But  (A major) then  (D major) my  (B minor) mother  (D major) showed  (A major) me
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that there  (D major) really was nothing to fear,  (A major) 
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that noth (B minor) ing came around
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when  (D major) the light  (C sharp minor) went out (F sharp minor) ,
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Esus4 
and sud (B minor) denly my fears  (Esus4) all
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 (E major) disappeared.  (A major)  (B minor) 
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 (A major) Gee Bert, that reminds  (A minor) me
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of me a  (E major) long time  (A minor) ago.
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Huh. I was little, I  (G major) used to be afraid
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to  (F major) take a bath in the  (E major) tubby.
Really?
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I thought  (A minor) that the water would sweep  (G major) me down the drain with a  (F major) rush and a
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 (C major) roar and a  (F major) gurgle and a  (C major) glub with a  (D minor) gurgle an (D major) d  a glub,  (E major) glub,  (A minor) glubby.
Glubby?
Well, it rhymes with tubby, Bert.
Oh, I see.
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Bm 
But  (D major) my daddy  (B minor) showed me
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the  (A major) teeny drain,
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which is  (D major) much, much smaller than me.  (A major) 
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I  (C sharp minor) could  (B minor) never fit down  (D major) that
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F#m 
 (C sharp minor) teeny little drain,  (F sharp minor) 
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and  (B minor) now the tub's my favorite place
Esus4 
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F#m 
F#sus4 
F#m 
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 (Esus4) to  (E major) be.  (F sharp minor)  (F sharpsus4)  (F sharp minor)  (E major) 
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And  (F sharp major) we  (B minor) are so much  (C sharp minor) older now,
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 (D major) and  (A major)  (D major) as we said before,  (E major) 
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the night  (D major) can be  (B minor) beautiful,
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the  (C sharp minor) tubby's lots of  (F sharp minor) fun,
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and we don't  (B minor) have to be
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afraid  (E major)  (Esus4) anymore.  (A major) 
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 (D major)  (B minor)  (D major)  (A major) you