Scraps Of Paper chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

[INTRO]

G+G B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD
G+G B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD

[VERSE 1]
G+G            A minorAm       D MajorD      G+G
These days my life seems somehow like a tired old clich?
   A minorAm        D MajorD        G+G
A augmentedA bad movie scene that just goes on and on
           A minorAm       D MajorD        G+G
With dialogue like " It's so sad how fast time slips away"
    A minorAm        D MajorD         G+G
Or "You never really miss them until they're gone"
A minorAm       D MajorD        G+G
Funny how those old clich?s come true
A minorAm         C majorC        D MajorD
I never thought I'd miss him, but I do

[CHORUS]
G+G         A minorAm   G+G        A minorAm    D MajorD
My father died in summer, and all he left behind
G+G           A minorAm   G+G   B minorBm    A minorAm   D MajorD
Were little scraps of paper, little scraps of rhyme
 A minorAm         D MajorD          G+G
I read them and felt something inside me break
  B minorBm                A minorAm    D MajorD
And angrily cried out "Too late, too late!"
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD
Surely there must be something better?
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD
Surely there must be something better?

[VERSE 2]
    G+G       A minorAm     D MajorD         G+G
He and I were always strangers, searching for someone
   A minorAm      D MajorD       G+G
I was looking for a hero, and he a friend
              A minorAm       D MajorD        G+G
So while I searched for my father, he was looking for his son
   A minorAm      D MajorD        G+G
And strangers we remained until the end
    A minorAm        D MajorD        G+G
But the man who wrote his heart into these rhymes
      A minorAm      C majorC           D MajorD
I know that he could have been a good friend of mine

[CHORUS]
G+G         A minorAm   G+G        A minorAm    D MajorD
My father died in summer, and all he left behind
G+G           A minorAm   G+G   B minorBm    A minorAm   D MajorD
Were little scraps of paper, little scraps of rhyme
 A minorAm         D MajorD          G+G
I read them and felt something inside me break
  B minorBm                A minorAm    D MajorD
And angrily cried out "Too late, too late!"
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD
Surely there must be something better?
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD
Surely there must be something better?

[VERSE 3]
G+G           A minorAm          D MajorD        G+G
So I sit here where he lived and died as the ghosts around me weave
    A minorAm       D MajorD        G+G
And the evening shadows lengthen on the wall
           A minorAm       D MajorD     G+G
And in this dark and empty room it's easy to believe
    A minorAm      D MajorD    G+G
That he never, really lived at all
    A minorAm        D MajorD      G+G
But the little scraps of paper in my hand
A minorAm        C majorC           D MajorD
Prove he lived to me ? a father and a man

[CHORUS]
G+G         A minorAm   G+G        A minorAm    D MajorD
My father died in summer, and all he left behind
G+G           A minorAm   G+G   B minorBm    A minorAm   D MajorD
Were little scraps of paper, little scraps of rhyme
 A minorAm         D MajorD          G+G
I read them and felt something inside me break
  B minorBm                A minorAm    D MajorD
And angrily cried out "Too late, too late!"
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD
Surely there must be something better?
G+G      B minorBm        A minorAm    D MajorD