Take Me Back chords by Randy Newman

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
D MajorD    D MajorD    D MajorD    D MajorD

Verse 1:
D MajorD         G+G
Everyone tells me I was dealt a losing hand,
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the way that I look, the way that I act, it's not hard to understand.
D MajorD              G+G
Sure, I got troubles, maybe you got'em too,
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I'd like to explain what has happened to me, so, it doesn't happen to you.

Verse 2:
   D MajorD          G+G
I was born in Los Angeles,  many, many, many years ago,
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 we lived out in North Hollywood then in a steamy little bungalow.
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My mother, my father, my baby-brother and me,
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playin' cowboys all day out there in the valley, what a perfect family.

Bridge:
   G+G            D MajorD
Hey, hey, get 'em up, get 'em up;
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come a ti-yi,  hey.

Verse 3:
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 Went off to high school when I was thirteen,
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I was kind of advanced if you know what I mean.
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Ran into some trouble, drinkin' heavy with my friends in the hills.
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 My daddy had to come down to the station to get me, he say:
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 "Where is my angry young man?"

Chorus:
    G+G             D MajorD
Take me back, baby, please take me back,
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I don't wanna live here by this dirty old airport in this greasy little shack.
    G+G             D MajorD
Take me back, baby, please take me back,
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just  give me a chance and we'll  start all over again.

Bridge:
F#F#                B minorBm
 Now, that young girl was just a summertime thing,
     E MajorE            A augmentedA
she went back to school when the school bell rang.
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 Now, I do my laundry by myself,  every night I eat alone,
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Baby, please, please, please, won't you let me  come back home?

Interlude:
D MajorD   D MajorD   G+G   G+G
A augmentedA   G+G   D MajorD   D MajorD
D   D MajorD

Verse 4:
D MajorD           G+G
Goin' off to college,  passed every test,
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 they said: "Let's send this boy to Palo Alto, he could be one of the best".
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 Four years at Stanford,  worked very hard,
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 a lot of good it did me,  little tramp, your're ruining my life.

End-Chorus:
    G+G             D MajorD
Take me back, baby, please take me back,
    A augmentedA            G+G             D MajorD          D MajorD
I don't wanna live here by this dirty old airport in this greasy little shack.
    G+G             D MajorD
Take me back, baby, please take me back,
   A augmentedA              G+G         D MajorD       D MajorD
just  give me a chance and we'll  start all over again.
   A augmentedA             G+G         D MajorD     D MajorD    D MajorD   D MajorD
Just give me a chance and we'll  start all over.