Aldo chords by Blossom Caldarone

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
G+G            D7D7
Lived in a city, no one knew he was there
  G+G          C majorC   C minorCm
The little old man with silver hair
     B minorBm          E MajorE
And he's listened to Beethoven every day
    A minorAm          D MajorD      D7D7
No, the little old man never came out to play
    G+G           D7D7
He was sweet and quiet with a thoughtful mind
G+G           C majorC      C minorCm
Didn't know how to be cruel, only kind
     B minorBm            E7E7
Now he's up in the heavens doesn't care for his money
A minorAm           D7D7
Checking everyone still loves everybody
G+G               D7D7
Born in the mountains, one of nature's wild
  G+G             C majorC   C minorCm
His mother walked out, she was only a child
     B minorBm           E7E7
So he was sent to the state to be loved by another
    A minorAm          D7D7
But the little young boy just wanted his mother

Bridge :
  G+G          D MajorD
She never admitted that he was her son
  G+G            C majorC     C minorCm
So he spent 60 years saying he had no one
     G+G             E minorEm
And told all of those around him a multitude of things
A minorAm                D MajorD
Did not get too close, scared of what the future brings
G+G           B minorBm
Aldo, we love you and miss you every day
   A minorAm              B minorBm
Your spirit still lives on, the violins are on replay
   G+G                B minorBm
We've played your favourite songs very often on repeat
  A minorAm                  BB
I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet

Verse 2:
 G+G            D7D7
I met him when I had just turned around ten
  G+G               C majorC    C minorCm
We had similar birthdays, we were friends from then
    B minorBm        E7E7
He had boxes of crackers piled against the wall
  A minorAm              D7D7
And bottles of champagne that he saved for us all
  G+G                D7D7
He lived 'round the corner from my secondary school
    G+G            C majorC     C minorCm
And he had no family, so it was us that he saw
    Bm7Bm7             E7E7
And the young girl from Tesco who he would always amuse,
A minorAm               C minorCm
Would not stop crying when she heard the sad news

Instrumental:
G+G     Gmaj7Gmaj7  A minorAm    BB
G+G         A minorAm    BB

Vocalising:
G+G     BB    A minorAm    BB
G+G     BB    A minorAm    BB BdimBdim BB

Verse 3:
G+G        Gmaj7Gmaj7
Aldo passed away aged 84
  A minorAm                 B7B7
We found ourselves with him and it was us he adored
    G+G              Gmaj7Gmaj7
And his mother who walked out around 80 years ago
    A minorAm             AdimAdim   BB
Turned out to live in a house just down the road
  G+G             D7D7
It sounds like a far fetched story from a film
  G+G               C majorC      C minorCm
But this was Aldo's life it really happened to him
     Bm7Bm7               E7E7
And we've played his favourite songs very often on repeat
    A minorAm               C minorCm
And I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet