Reunion chords by Lucy Kaplansky

Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion


INTRO: G C G  D G

            C        G
Away we all go, summer nineteen-seventy-one
         D              G
From Chicago to Toronto, for a family reunion
               C        G
My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip
        D              G
Swimming in the afternoons at another Motel 6


             C          G
First stop in town was my grandmother?s bakery
          D                   G
She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities
                C             G
I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one
    D                     G
Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want

CHORUS:
    D
Here we are together
  C    G
Our father?s gone
    D
Here we are together
C      G
Forty years on
    Em
Here we are together
          C
Just daughters and sons
       D
This is our reunion
       G
This is our reunion


INTERLUDE: C G D G  D G

Em          C            G
Later in an old fancy restaurant, she wore the crown
       D               G
Surrounded by all her kin, looking proudly around
       Em      C                G
I watched my dad with his brothers, with their grey-green eyes
          D             G
And their handsome faces, with dark shadows behind


           C              G
All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him
        D              G
Mathematics and opera, and Gilbert and Sullivan
           C         G
Oh, I used to believe he was the lucky one
         D              G
The one who got away, the mysterious prodigal son
         D        C    G
At that family reunion, nineteen-seventy-one


CHORUS:
      D
And here we are together
  C    G
Our father?s gone
    D
Here we are together
C      G
Forty years on
    Em
Here we are together
          C
Just daughters and sons
       D
This is our reunion
       Em
This is our reunion
       D
This is our reunion
       G
This is our reunion