When I Was Nine chords by
John D. Loudermilk

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Key: D major

Verse 1
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When I was nine,
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I found a toy that was interesting to a boy who was nine at the time.
On a hot summer
Sunday afternoon in
Durham,
North
Carolina, I started thinking about pretty
girls and kissin' things,
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an d at that very moment over in
Baton
Rouge,
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Louisiana, you
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were born, all wrinkled and bawlin' a baby's holler,
diapered and powdered and drinkin'
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pet milk from a hospital bottle.
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Is it a boy or a girl?
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What kind of boy would love
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you anyhow?
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Yet at that very time,
things started coming together over in my mind.
This girl's eyes, that girl's hair,
all the pretty features I'd seen anywhere, I put them
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all together out of pin -up magazines and out of young
boys' dreams of what a glamour queen
should look like.
And who would guess as you lay there with your
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hands in your mouth and on your head
not a hair that you were a dream coming
true for a boy somewhere over in
North
Carolina
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Who was nine at the time?
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