Calvin And The Ghosties

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[Verse]
          F#
Since the day you were born
          D#m               Amaj7
I've been searching for the Octobers
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I remember
F# A#m Amaj7

    F#
The late afternoon
    D#m               Amaj7
Air crisp as a Julien apple
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With a handful
    F#
Of gravel to throw
       D#m                    
At the bats swooping over the 
Amaj7
neighborhood
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My jacket zipped up to the hood 
   C#m
with love I never understood
         F#
'Til the day you were born
        D#m              Amaj7
Now I'm searching for an October
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To show ya

[Instrumental]
F# D#m Amaj7 x3
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     F#
Then son you spied
          D#m
With your momma's blue eyes
        Amaj7
From my shoulders
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Your October
         F#             D#m       
Saying "ha ha daddy the ghosties 
           Amaj7
are scary I like them and
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My jacket may be lighter than
      C#m
Yours was when you were toddling
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And the leaves may not be hanging 
           C#m
in there long
A#m                   C#
But it's colder than September was
          Dm                A#maj7
You still make the cider momma loves
        Gm                 A#maj7 
And the blowup ghosts still haunt 
                  Dm
the neighbors' lawns"

[Instrumental]
Am A#maj7 Gm
Dm Am A#maj7 Gm

                    Dm  Am
We shall be saved
A#maj7             Gm       
By the words coming out of the 
                 Dm    Am
mouths of babes
         A#maj7             Gm
Not the glow of a cellular phone 
singing
            Dm
"Hey hey hey
Am                            
Ain't you wonderin' if you're 
A#maj7               Gm          
gonna be laughing or coughing all
                 Dm
 the way to the bank?"

Am  A#maj7 Gm
                    Dm  Am
We shall be saved
A#maj7             Gm       
By the words coming out of the 
                 Dm    Am
mouths of babes
         A#maj7             Gm
Not the glow of a cellular phone 
singing
            Dm
"Hey hey hey
Am                            
Ain't you wonderin' if you're 
A#maj7               Gm          
gonna be laughing or coughing all
                 Bm -
 the way to the bank?"

Bm                 D
Your jacket may be lighter than
      D#m            B
Mine was when I was toddling
         F#
But the leaves are really hanging in
 there
B
Pretty as a gift shop picture
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It's colder than September was
             C#m7
I can still make the cider momma 
loves
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And the blowup ghosts still haunt 
                C#m7
the neighbors' lawns
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And they and you and all of this
  C#m7
Remind me son that ever since
F#
The day you were born
      D#m                  Amaj7
I've been searching for my Octobers
F#                                
You've been searching for nothing 
     D#m                         
and seeing whatever's in front of 
            Amaj7        F#
you and so now do your mother and I
            D#m
And in the blink of an eye
       A
Your Octobers
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Will be the ones we're
F#
Remembering