The Picture chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

C     C/B      Am
There are pictures on the piano
F        G
Pictures of the family
C C/B   Am
Mostly my kids but there's an old
F     C
Picture of you and me
Em           F  Fadd9
You were five and I was six
Em  G
In 1952
C  C/B    Am
That was forty years ago
G        C
How could it be true?

C        C/B   Am
We were sitting outside drawing
F          G
At a table meant for cards
C        C/B   Am
And it must have been in autumn
F              G
Falling leaves in the front yard
Em           F   Fadd9
With a shoe box full of crayons
Em          G
Full of colors oh so bright
C         C/B   Am
In a picture in a plastic frame
G          C
A snapshot black and white

C        C/B  Am
You were looking at my paper
F        G
Watching what I drew
C   C/B       Am
It was natural: I was older
F             C
Thirteen months more than you
Em       F   Fadd9
A brother and a sister
Em        G
A little boy and girl
C      C/B    Am
And whoever took that picture
G        C
Captured our own world

C     C/B   Am
A brother needs a sister
F          G
To watch what he can do
C     C/B  Am
To protect and to torture
F          C
To boss around it's true
Em         F     Fadd9
But a brother will defend her
Em           G
For a sister's love is pure
C      C/B     Am
Because she thinks he's wonderful
G         C
When he is not so sure

C       C/B    Am
In the picture there's a fender
F     G
Of our old Chevrolet
C   C/B    Am
Or Pontiac, our dad would know
F        G
Surely he could say
Em         F     Fadd9
But dad is dead and we grow old
Em            G
It's true that time flies by
C      C/B    Am
And in forty years the world has changed
 G        C
As well as you and I