Five Years

Em  - 022000
A   - x02220
C/G - 332010
Am  - x02210
D7  - xx0212


G                                 
 Pushing through the market 
         Em
square,           so many mothers 
sighing
A                                 
 News had just come over,         
         C/G
            we had five years left 
to cry in
G                                 
 News guy wept and told us,       
         Em
            earth was really dying
A                                 
 Cried so much his face was wet,  
         C/G
            then I knew he was not 
lying

G
 I heard telephones, opera house, 
favorite melodies
Em
 I saw boys, toys, electric irons 
and T.V.'s
A
 My brain hurt like a warehouse, it 
had no room to spare
C/G
 I had to cram so many things to 
store everything in there

                 Am                
 And all the fat-skinny people,
        C/G

                        Am         
 and all the tall-short people,
        C/G

                    G              
 and all the nobody people,
        C/G

                      D7
 and all the somebody people
 I never thought I'd need so many 
Am       C/G
people


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G                                 
 A girl my age went off her head, 
         Em
           hit some tiny children
A                                 
 If the black hadn't a-pulled her 
         C/G
off,       I think she would have 
killed them
G                                 
 A soldier with a broken arm,     
         Em
           fixed his stare to the 
wheels of a Cadillac
A                                 
 A cop knelt and kissed the feet 
         C/G
of 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/G
 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/G
 I kiss you, you're beautiful, I 
want you to walk

G
 We've got five years, stuck on my 
eyes
Em
 Five years, what a surprise
A
 We've got five years, my brain 
hurts a lot
C/G
 Five years, that's all we've got
G
 Five years, what a surprise
Em
 We've got five years, stuck on my 
eyes
A
 We've got five years, my brain 
hurts a lot
C/G
 Five years, that's all we've got
G
 We've got five years, stuck on my 
eyes
Em
 Five years, what a surprise
A
 We've got five years, my brain 
hurts a lot
C/G
 Five years, that's all we've got
G
 Five years, what a surprise
Em
 Five years, stuck on my eyes
A
 We've got five years, my brain 
hurts a lot
C/G
 Five years, that's all we've got
G
 Five years
Em
 Five years
A
 Five years
C/G
 Five years !
G