Your Childhood chords by The Proclaimers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:

C majorC   G+G   C majorC   G+G


Verse 1:

C majorC
From birth to five, you're learning
A minorAm
From five to ten, you're playing
DmDm
By the time you're fifteen
G+G
You're never wrong
DmDm
But then you turn around
G+G         C majorC
And it's all gone, your childhood
C majorC
Now daddy knows what he's saying
A minorAm
You're in my arms and I'm praying
DmDm           G+G
That I'll be given the strength and time
 DmDm         G+G
To make yours just as happy as mine
C majorC
Your childhood

Verse 2:

C majorC
 Every morning

Your crying ends my sleep
A minorAm
 I kid on I'm angry
            DmDm
But it's not a feeling I can keep
FF
 There's no light outside
           G+G
I don't care 'cause I know it's true

 That in our house
  C majorC          C7C7
The sun shines out of you

Verse 3:

      FF
Well you've got your mother's looks

Your're a beautiful little girl
    DmDm
You'll break boys hearts

All over this world
   G+G
Then one day you'll walk out the door
         C majorC
And I know you'll break mine
    G+G
You'll break mine


Verse 4:

C majorC
From birth to five, you're learning
A minorAm
From five to ten, you're playing
    DmDm             G+G
By the time you're fifteen you're never wrong
     DmDm       G+G
Then you turn around and it's all gone
  C majorC      G+G
Your childhood


Solo:

C majorC     A minorAm
DmDm  G+G  DmDm  G+G
C majorC     C7C7


Verse 5:
FF
 So you're trying to talk

Any day now you'll walk
C majorC
 You'll be running around

Make me act like a clown
DmDm         C majorC
 'cause I live and I breathe
       G+G
For my little girl
     G+G
Our little girl
     G+G
The most important thing is this whole wide world


Verse 6:

  C majorC
Now daddy know what he's saying
   A minorAm
Your in my arms and I'm praying
   DmDm        G+G
That I'll be given the strength an time
  DmDm         G+G
To make yours just as happy as mine
  C majorC
Your childhood
 FF
(Your Childhood)
 C majorC
Your Childhood
 FF
(Your Childhood)
 C majorC
Your Childhood
 FF
(Your Childhood)

C majorC   FF   C majorC   FF
DmDm G+G C majorC