Five Years

G                                  
Pushing through the market square, 
Em
so many mothers sighing
A                                
News had just come over, we had five
C
 years left to cry in
G                           Em
News guy wept and told us, earth was
 really dying
A                                 
Cried so much his face was wet, 
      C
then I knew he was not lying
         G
I heard telephones, opera house, 
favorite melodies
       Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and
 TV's
    A
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it 
had no room to spare
          C
I had to cram so many things to 
store everything in there
                        Am       C
And all the fat-skinny people,  
                      Am
and all the tall-short people
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C                   G       C   
And all the nobody people, and 
                 D
all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many 
Am       C
people

G                                 
A girl my age went off her head, hit
Em
 some tiny children
A                              
If the black hadn't a pulled her 
          C
off, I think she would have killed 
them
G                             Em
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed 
his stare to the wheels of a 
Cadillac
A                                 
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of
                  C
 a priest, and a queer threw up at 
the sight of that
G                                 
I think I saw you in an ice cream 
         Em
parlor, drinking  milk shakes cold 
and long
A                                 
Smiling and waving and looking so 
       C
fine, don't think you knew you were 
in this song
G
And it was cold, and it rained, so I
 felt like an actor
       Em
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to 
get back there
      A
Your face, your race, the way that 
you talk
   C
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want
 you to walk

        G                          
We got five years, stuck on my eyes
    Em
 - Five years, what a suprise
        A                        
We got five years, my brain hurts 
         C
alot - Five years, that's all we got
        G                          
We got five years, what a surprise 
   Em
- Five years, stuck on my eyes
        A                        
We got five years, my brain hurts 
         C
alot - Five years, that's all we got