Little Women - How I Am chords by Misc Musicals

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

Key: D MajorD

Intro:

D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -
D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -

Verse 1:
  Dadd9Dadd9
She asks how I am
  Em11Em11
And so: how am I?
  F#m7F#m7        Bm7Bm7
My days are the usual days
    Cadd9Cadd9
I wake up, I go out
     A7sus
Time goes by

  Gadd9Gadd9        F#m7F#m7           Bm11Bm11
My days are exactly the days I have lived since arriving here
  Gadd9Gadd9       F#m7F#m7            Bm11Bm11
In fact, how I am is amazed how this comforts me year by year

 Cadd9Cadd9
I work and I eat
          A7sus
Life is muffins and jam
  E minor 7Em7        F#m7F#m7
The house is nice and quiet now
Asus/G   A7sus        D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -
         That is how I am

D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -

Verse 2:
   D MajorD
Five years in these rooms
A augmentedA     D MajorD
  Reading Hegel and Kant
A augmentedA   F#m7F#m7        Bm7Bm7
  My mind is devoted to thoughts
    Cadd9Cadd9
Of the meaning of life
         A7sus
What more could I want?

  Gadd9Gadd9       F#m7F#m7        Bm11Bm11
So why is it lately I find I'm uneasy all through the night?
  Gadd9Gadd9        F#m7F#m7          Bm11Bm11
And why even now does my skin feel explosive as dynamite?
  C majorC
Why does my heart pound
         AsusAsus
Like a battering ram?
  E minor 7Em7      F#m7F#m7
How can she ask me how I am?
Asus/G  A7sus       BB - - - F#F# -
         How I am is fine!

BB - - - F#F# -

Bridge:
BB             Eadd9Eadd9   B/D#B/D#   F#F#    BB
Dear Miss March, there is nothing dramatic or new to report
F#susF#sus   F#F# Badd9Badd9
This will be short
BB           Eadd9Eadd9   B/D#B/D# F#7sus
Morning and evening I live in my usual way
    E MajorE     B/D#B/D#     F#F#     BB
On the day you return you will see for yourself!

C majorC              Fadd9Fadd9  C/EC/E
Tell me, Miss March, are you happy so far
     DmDm      C/EC/E     F6F6    C/GC/G
From the clang and the beat of our turbulent street?
   FF    C/EC/E     G/DG/D     C majorC - Em/B - A minorAm - C/GC/G
Quite often I think of our days in New York
     FMaj7      C/EC/E     G7sus     Abadd9Abadd9  - AbAb - AbMaj7 - F5/Eb -
Though of course since you went I have been quite content

AbAb - Eb MajorEb - AbAb
Ach!  I wake up in the morning and all that I hear
    Ab/Gb   GbGb - Ab/Gb - GbGb
Is the absence of sound
AbAb - Eb MajorEb - AbAb
Yes!  My peace is disturbed but the ruckus is me
   Ab/Gb     GbGb - Ab/Gb - GbGb
As my thoughts run aground

 BB
I wanted a life by myself in these rooms
  A augmentedA
But now all around me another life looms
  G# minorG#m          F#F#           Eadd9Eadd9  - E MajorE - EMaj7 - E MajorE
Who asked her to come and go and to leave me like that?
  C#m7C#m7         D#m7D#m7
And now she expects me to send her a note?
   C#m7C#m7             D#m7D#m7
With words, if I spoke, that would stick in my throat!
  G+G
Who asked her to change how I live,
G/F#    E minor 7Em7
   How I think,
   Gm6Gm6     Edim/A
How I am? - - - - -

D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -
D MajorD - - - A augmentedA -

Verse 3:
  Dadd9Dadd9
She asks how I am
  Em11Em11
How can I reply?
 F#m7F#m7          Bm7Bm7
I go through my daily routine
    Cadd9Cadd9
I give lessons, I wait
     A7sus
Time goes by

  Gadd9Gadd9         F#m7F#m7         Bm11Bm11
Yet lately I find there is pleasure in humming a silly tune
  Gadd9Gadd9         F#m7F#m7           Bm11Bm11
And some days I go to the park and I sit there all afternoon
   C majorC
Some evenings I swear
         A7sus
I can hear a door slam
  E minor 7Em7       F#m7F#m7
The house is far too quiet now
Asus/G  A7sus        D MajorD - - - A/D - Dadd9Dadd9
        That is how I am