Starting Square chords by Lucy Wainwright Roche

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G

Verse:
         Em           C    G
'Hello' and from there where else can we go, 'Hello'
       Em         C      G
A song, I’m expected now to play along with a song
  Bm      C             Bm
You crook, just a boy sitting there with his book
   C           G
And a smile that the camera took
    Em      C         G
Leaving you just the same as you always look

Verse:
         Em          C       G
As for me, I’m as changed as a girl can be, can’t you see
            Em           C     G
That I’ve flown to the edges of the earth and home, I’ve flown
     Bm      C             Bm
From your chair, I can tell you can tell it from there
    C          G
That I may have been everywhere
    Em        C    G
But I’m back, back to the starting square

Verse:
           Em             C       G
In my nights, I have bargained with the eastern lights, in my nights
         Em            C     G
We’ve met and the trouble was no trouble at all to forget
       Bm        C        Bm
Dreaming, we spoke, chalked it up to a terrible joke
      C            G
And then we each took a hold of the rope
     Em      C         G
With one match and the problem went up in smoke

Verse:
             Em        C        G
It’s just there, it’s not right or wrong or fair, it’s just there
           Em          C      G
A big heart, a rotten ending and a fumbling start, a big heart
       Bm       C             Bm
And isn’t it so that when I see you at the end of this show
      C            G
That we’ll start with the places we know
     Em      C          G
And walk long down the road that we always go