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[Verse]
                            G      C
There was a crazy man lived by the sea
                           G          C
He'd stand on the beach as still as a tree
    F                                       C
The wind beat his body, the salt burned his face
                  G          Am     C
The crazy man he, loved that place
                  G          C
The crazy man he, loved that place

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
                          G            C
The people thought he was some kind of sage
                     G      C    F
Who had wisdom from another age
                                    C
They turned to him to show them the way
                  G          Am   C
The crazy man had nothing to say
                  G          C
The crazy man had nothing to say

[Chorus]
           F                     C
"I have no answers, don't ask me why
      G       C            F        C
Maybe someday soon it will all come clear
F  C   G      C
By and by and by"

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
                         G          C
They grew angry and they asked him again
                         G         C     F
Pleading for answers, he gave them none
                                     C
He just whispered looking out at the sea
                        G      Am   C
"Look to yourselves and not to me
                       G      C
Look to yourselves and not to me"

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
                              G          C
And so they beat him and they drove him away
                              G        C    F
"He has failed us", they were heard to say
                                    C
They were afraid, they did not understand
              G     Am    C
He was just a crazy man
              G     C
He was just a crazy man

[Chorus]
           F                     C
"I have no answers, don't ask me why
      G       C            F        C
Maybe someday soon it will all come clear
F  C   G
By and by

[Chorus]
           F                     C
"I have no answers, don't ask me why
      G       C            F        C
Maybe someday soon it will all come clear
F  C   G      C
By and by and by"