Obvious Child chords by Paul Simon

Chords with lyrics

G+G
Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

  D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD    G+G
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

     D MajorD    G+G C majorC           FF
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

C majorC      G+G    D MajorD         D MajorD
 I don't expect to sleep through the night

   D MajorD   C majorC   G+G    D MajorD    G+G
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

  D MajorD G+G  C majorC
But I say why

       FF    C majorC
Why deny the obvious child?

       FF    C majorC   G+G
 Why deny the obvious child?

     D MajorD      G+G  C majorC
And in remembering a road sign

G+G    D MajorD   C majorC   G+G     D MajorD   G+G   C majorC
 I am remembering a girl when I was young

FF C majorC    G+G     D MajorD     G+G
  And we said These songs are true

   D MajorD    G+G
These days are ours

   D MajorD     G+G
These tears are free

  D MajorD G+G
And hey

C majorC           FF  C majorC
 The cross is in the ballpark

           FF  C majorC  G+G
 The cross is in the ballpark

We had a lot of fun

            D MajorD C majorC
We had a lot of money

  G+G                          D MajorD C majorC
We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny

      D MajorD      G+G
Sonny gets married and moves away

C majorC      D MajorD    G+G
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay

C majorC     D MajorD
Sonny gets sunnier

G+G       C majorC   D MajorD
Day by day by day by day


G+G
 Doh, doh, doh, doh


 Doh, doh, doh, doh


         D MajorD   C majorC   G+G
 Well, I've been waking up at sunrise

      D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD    G+G
 I've been following the light across my room

 D MajorD   G+G  C majorC         FF    C majorC G+G D MajorD
I watch the night receive the room of my day

G+G   D MajorD   C majorC    G+G   D MajorD    G+G
 Some people say the sky is just the sky

  D MajorD G+G
But I say

C majorC       FF    C majorC
 Why deny the obvious child?

       FF    C majorC
 Why deny the obvious child?


G+G  C/GC/G G+G
Mm---------


C/GC/G  G+G  C majorC G+G  D MajorD     C majorC
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself

   D MajorD  G+G    C majorC  G+G  D MajorD       C majorC
 How it's strange that some rooms are like cages

  D MajorD  G+G  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
 Sonny's yearbook from high school

  C majorC
Is down from the shelf

D MajorD    C majorC G+G D MajorD         C majorC
And he id-ly thumbs through the pages

   AbAb  BbmBbm
 Some have died

      G+G
 Some have fled from themselves

  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD G+G  D MajorD
 Or struggled from here to get there

 C majorC   G+G C majorC  G+G D MajorD     C majorC
 Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls

     G+G  C majorC    G+G  D MajorD       C majorC
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair


             G+G
Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

  D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD    G+G
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

     D MajorD    G+G C majorC           FF
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

C majorC      G+G    D MajorD         D MajorD
 I don't expect to sleep through the night

   D MajorD   C majorC   G+G    D MajorD    G+G
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

  D MajorD G+G
But I say

C majorC           FF  C majorC
 the cross is in the ballpark

       FF C majorC   G+G
 Why deny the obvious  child?