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Somebody Someday by The Struts

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Key: C

Verse 1:
     C               G/B
When I was just sixteen
        Am            C/G
I stood waiting for a dream
   F                   G               C    F/C  C
At Barker's Street bus station every night

        C               G/B
When I tried to get it on
           Am                 C/G
She just looked at me with scorn
   F                   G               C    F/C  C
My courage turned to fear and I took flight

Chorus:
          Am                     F
For those looks, they seemed to say
          G            C
You ain't nothin', go away
        G/B   Am    C/G    F
You're just a face in the crowd
     G               C
So I went home and I vowed
          F  C/E Dm7       C     F/C C F/C
I'm gonna be somebody, someday

Verse 2:
    C                G/B
Her name was Irene Wilde
           Am           C/G
Oh, such beauty for a child
         F               G                C    F/C  C
When she started dating boys, I nearly died

     C                   G/B
For I could not barely stand
       Am                C/G
Seeing anyone hold her hand
  F               G               C    F/C  C
I felt I had to crawl away and hide

Chorus:
         Am              F
In my mother's sunny room
     G             C
I composed so many tunes
          G/B      Am    C/G    F
They were all the same, just a frame
      G                C
For a name and just to say
          F  C/E Dm7       C
I'm gonna be somebody, someday

Bridge:
A#           F
Wilde is your name
       G                  C
As you left that country town
     G/B     Am      C/G        F
I'd been around, I'd seen some fame
              G                   C
I'd seen some ups, I'd seen some downs


A#                 F
Smile through your shock
         G                    C
When you hear your name aloud
G/B       Am   C/G    F
It's that face in the crowd
              G                  C
I didn't dig it, I'm much too proud

Instrumental:
C F/C C F/C C F/C C F/C

Verse:
     C               G/B
When I was just sixteen
        Am            C/G
I stood waiting for that dream
   F                   G                 C    F/C  C
At Barker's Street bus station, non-affair

     C                      G/B
At the time, it seem  ed so sad
        Am              C/G
But it didn't turn out bad
       F                  G                C    F/C  C
If she hadn't turned me down, I'd still be there

Chorus:
            Am                 F
You know, I think those folks agree
             G                  C
A little put-down makes them see
     G/B      Am     C/G              F
They ain't no chain; they're just the link
           G                 C
And that's why she made me think
          F  C/E Dm7   F  C/E Dm7
I'm gonna be somebody, be somebody
F  C/E Dm7       C
Be somebody, someday