Little Women - How I Am chords by Misc Musicals

• Difficulty: Advanced

Key: D

Intro:

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Verse 1:
    Dadd9
She asks how I am
    Em11
And so: how am I?
   F#m7               Bm7
My days are the usual days
       Cadd9
I wake up, I go out
          A7sus
Time goes by

   Gadd9                F#m7                      Bm11
My days are exactly the days I have lived since arriving here
   Gadd9              F#m7                       Bm11
In fact, how I am is amazed how this comforts me year by year

  Cadd9
I work and I eat
                    A7sus
Life is muffins and jam
    Em7               F#m7
The house is nice and quiet now
Asus/G     A7sus                D -  -  - A -
                  That is how I am

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Verse 2:
     D
Five years in these rooms
A          D
   Reading Hegel and Kant
A     F#m7               Bm7
   My mind is devoted to thoughts
       Cadd9
Of the meaning of life
                  A7sus
What more could I want?

   Gadd9              F#m7                Bm11
So why is it lately I find I'm uneasy all through the night?
    Gadd9                F#m7                   Bm11
And why even now does my skin feel explosive as dynamite?
    C
Why does my heart pound
                 Asus
Like a battering ram?
    Em7            F#m7
How can she ask me how I am?
Asus/G    A7sus              B - - - F# -
                 How I am is fine!

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Bridge:
B                         Eadd9      B/D#     F#       B
Dear Miss March, there is nothing dramatic or new to report
F#sus     F#  Badd9
This will be  short
B                     Eadd9      B/D#  F#7sus
Morning and evening I live in my usual way
       E         B/D#          F#          B
On the day you return you will see for yourself!

C                            Fadd9    C/E
Tell me, Miss March, are you happy so far
         Dm            C/E         F6        C/G
From the clang and the beat of our turbulent street?
      F       C/E          G/D         C - Em/B - Am - C/G
Quite often I think of our days in New York
          FMaj7            C/E         G7sus         Abadd9   - Ab - AbMaj7 - F5/Eb -
Though of course since you went I have been quite content

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

  B
I wanted a life by myself in these rooms
    A
But now all around me another life looms
    G#m                   F#                      Eadd9   - E - EMaj7 - E
Who asked her to come and go and to leave me like that?
    C#m7                  D#m7
And now she expects me to send her a note?
     C#m7                          D#m7
With words, if I spoke, that would stick in my throat!
    G
Who asked her to change how I live,
G/F#       Em7
     How I think,
      Gm6         Edim/A
How I am? - - - - -

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Verse 3:
    Dadd9
She asks how I am
    Em11
How can I reply?
  F#m7                   Bm7
I go through my daily routine
       Cadd9
I give lessons, I wait
          A7sus
Time goes by

    Gadd9                  F#m7                  Bm11
Yet lately I find there is pleasure in humming a silly tune
    Gadd9                 F#m7                     Bm11
And some days I go to the park and I sit there all afternoon
     C
Some evenings I swear
                  A7sus
I can hear a door slam
    Em7              F#m7
The house is far too quiet now
Asus/G   A7sus               D - - - A/D - Dadd9
               That is how I am