Calvin And Hobbes chords by JJ Heller

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Verse 1:
  C majorC      Am7Am7     FF
We made up the rules as we went
C majorC       FF      D7D7     G+G
That's how the bulk of the summer was spent
E minorEm       A minorAm    D MajorD
Wading through heather, lazing on limbs
FF      C majorC    A minorAm    G+G
Wasting the day any way on a whim


🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC   Am7Am7     FF
Nobody saw him like me
 C majorC      FF       D7D7     G+G
A augmentedA real jungle cat, not just fabric and string
E minorEm     A minorAm   D MajorD
Muscle and fiber, rustling fur
FF      C majorC    A minorAm     G+G
It's all so hazy now I can't be sure

🎸 Chorus 1:
     FF    G+G
Was he a toy or a tiger
       C majorC      E minorEm  A minorAm
Bouncing downhill in that radio flyer
  C7C7     FF    G+G    E minorEm  A7A7
And was it all real or did I pretend
    FF      G+G  G7G7 C majorC
I don't know but he was my friend


🎸 Verse 3:
   C majorC      Am7Am7    FF
He'd wait by the door after school
C majorC       FF       D7D7      G+G
I'd come home whistling and next thing I knew
    E minorEm    A minorAm    D MajorD
We were tumbling backward, hunter and prey
FF       C majorC      A minorAm      G+G
Still nice to know someone missed me all day


🎸 Chorus 2:
     FF    G+G
Was he a toy or a tiger
      C majorC     E minorEm    A minorAm
Partner in crime and trusted advisor
  C7C7     FF    G+G    E minorEm  A7A7
And was it all real or did I pretend
    FF      G+G  G7G7 C majorC
I don't know but he was my friend

🎸 Bridge:
C7C7        FF   F minorFm
  So what was a memory
        C majorC
And what was a dream
  D7D7           D MajorD
And what would it matter if it's all the latter
  DmDm          G+G
It still was the whole world to me


🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC       Am7Am7     FF
I thought I'd lost him one night
C majorC       FF      D7D7      G+G
Mom called his name and my dad held the light
    E minorEm     A minorAm   D MajorD
But he finally got found, asleep on the ground
 FF        C majorC      A minorAm     G+G
I still taste the tears when I think of it now


🎸 Chorus 3:
     FF    G+G
Was he a toy or a tiger
       C majorC      E minorEm  A minorAm
Bouncing downhill in that radio flyer
  C7C7     FF    G+G    E minorEm  A7A7
And was it all real or did I pretend
   FF     G+G
All I know is he was my
FF           F minorFm
Tender and toothsome, water balloon-some
C majorC           C7C7
Fly to the moon-some, Sunday cartoon-some
FF
Real or pretend
  G+G  G7G7 C majorC
He was my friend