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I Blinked Once chords by Steve Forbert

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Intro:
Chord diagramC majorC
Childhood often seemed a pain to me
Chord diagramA minorAm  Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramC majorC
So hard waiting to be grown
Chord diagramC majorC
Childhood climbed up in a white oak tree
Chord diagramA minorAm  Chord diagramG+G                     Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramC majorC
Airplane flyin' across a midnight sky
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
His tiny lights blinked off and on
Chord diagramC majorC                                     Chord diagramA minorAm
I watched him move across the moon on high
Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramA minorAm                       Chord diagramC majorC
Well I blinked once and it was gone

Chorus:
Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramA minorAm
Gone, gone, yeah
Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramA augmentedA girl I'd met was all I cared for, friends
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramC majorC
I called her my very own
Chord diagramC majorC
We went down to hear the band begin
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and she was gone

Bridge:
C-Am-G-C x2 G-Am-F-G-C

Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramA minorAm
Gone, gone, yeah
Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramC majorC
I won big money on the gamblin' wheel
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
And I thought I was sittin' on a throne
Chord diagramC majorC
Big John told me 'bout his condo deal
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramC majorC
The nineteen seventies was ten long years
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
Was ten long years to sing a song
Chord diagramC majorC
It kicked off madly with a New Year's cheer
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramA minorAm              Chord diagramC majorC
That's right, it was gone, gone, yeah
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and it was gone
Chord diagramC majorC
Now old man's talkin' 'bout a gun he'd shot
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                            Chord diagramC majorC
An' he weren't much more than skin and bone
Chord diagramC majorC
Lyin' there breathin' on this worn out cot
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and he was gone
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
And he was gone, gone
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and he was gone, gone
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC
I blinked once and he was gone, gone, gone
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC

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