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