Chords with lyrics
Key: C majorC
NOTE:
Laura plays this song in Open C majorC Tuning.
Here it is notated for Standard Tuning.
🎸 Intro:
C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 C7C7 Fmaj7Fmaj7
C majorC A minorAm G+G C majorC
🎸 Verse 1:
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Damn all those people who don't lose control
C majorC
Who will never take a foot out of life
C majorC
You might not think that I care—but you don't know what I know
🎸 Verse 2:
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And damn all those hippies who stomp empty-footed
C majorC
Upon all what's good, or what's pure in the world
A minorAm C majorC
You might not think that I care—but you don't know what I know
🎸 Verse 3:
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And bless all those mothers who do all they can
C majorC
Just to take their faults out of the line
A minorAm C majorC
I might not know what it's like—but I'm glad that you know
🎸 Verse 4:
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Give me a minute there—just a minute now
C majorC
It'll come back to me
C majorC
I was so sure, but you, free-wheelin' troubadour
C majorC
You took my mind off the scene
A minorAm G+G C majorC
And you know what I know, and I know that I know that you know
🎸 Verse 5:
C majorC
You asked me blind once
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If I was a child once
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And I said I'm really not sure
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How can you know
A minorAm
How can you know
C majorC
What it is you don't know
🎸 Verse 6:
Cmaj7Cmaj7
We were a pair once of such despair, oh
C majorC
We were a child then
I'm sure
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If we were a child then
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We are children no more
🎸 Outro:
C majorC
Give me a minute there—just a minute now
C majorC
It'll come back to me
C majorC
I was so sure, but you, free-wheeling troubadour
C majorC
You took my mind off the scene
C majorC
And you know and I know and I know
C majorC
I know that you know
A minorAm C majorC
You know, you know, you know, and I know that you know