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Key: C
NOTE:
Laura plays this song in Open C Tuning.
Here it is notated for Standard Tuning.
🎸 Intro:
C Cmaj7 C7 Fmaj7
C Am G C
🎸 Verse 1:
C
Damn all those people who don't lose control
C
Who will never take a foot out of life
C
You might not think that I care—but you don't know what I know
🎸 Verse 2:
C
And damn all those hippies who stomp empty-footed
C
Upon all what's good, or what's pure in the world
Am C
You might not think that I care—but you don't know what I know
🎸 Verse 3:
C
And bless all those mothers who do all they can
C
Just to take their faults out of the line
Am C
I might not know what it's like—but I'm glad that you know
🎸 Verse 4:
C
Give me a minute there—just a minute now
C
It'll come back to me
C
I was so sure, but you, free-wheelin' troubadour
C
You took my mind off the scene
Am G C
And you know what I know, and I know that I know that you know
🎸 Verse 5:
C
You asked me blind once
C
If I was a child once
C
And I said I'm really not sure
C
How can you know
Am
How can you know
C
What it is you don't know
🎸 Verse 6:
Cmaj7
We were a pair once of such despair, oh
C
We were a child then
I'm sure
C
If we were a child then
C
We are children no more
🎸 Outro:
C
Give me a minute there—just a minute now
C
It'll come back to me
C
I was so sure, but you, free-wheeling troubadour
C
You took my mind off the scene
C
And you know and I know and I know
C
I know that you know
Am C
You know, you know, you know, and I know that you know
Song History
Published: March 6, 2022
Last Updated: September 10, 2025