Friends

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Bb Bb7 Eb  Ab  Eb  Bb7 Bb

(recitation, no singing)

Verse 1

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Friends are never earned
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They're a gift from the loving 
Eb Ab
God
And they're precious beyond human 
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valuation
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But you dare not take them for 
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granted
Eb
Or they'll drift away like smoke
                        Cm
And the warmth of their caring will 
vanish
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Like the chill of the endless 
   Dm7
nights

Verse 2

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Most of my friends are unknowns
Eb                              
And they probably won't rate an 
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obituary
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Unless they live and die in small 
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towns
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Where nothing much ever happens
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             Db
But a few of my friends are big 
people
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They'd made the world ring with 
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laughter
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Down to it's gaseous burning core
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They're famous, sensitive,   
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talented
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And their names are household words
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Yet they are no more precious in 
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God's eyes    or in mine
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Than those wonderful nobodys who 
          Eb7
live and die in small towns

Verse 3

                    Gm  Cm
Who is your friend?
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He's someone who warms you with a 
    Ab
nod
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Or with the unspoken word in hard 
  Dm
times
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When you're hurting beyond words
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Who is your friend?
          Eb
She's someone who holds you to her 
breast
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And sighs softly into your hair
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When no other medicine can stop the
   Eb
 pain
  Cm                               
A friend is someone who clinks his 
Db
glass against yours

Or answers the phone
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At three in the morning when you're
 Cm
 lost
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And with a few words of 
               Eb7
encouragement and concern
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Makes you realize you aren't 
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really lost at all

Outro

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Friends come in both sexes and in 
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all shapes and sizes
                   Cm
The most important thing they have 
in common
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Is the ability to share with you 
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your most sky splitting joys
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Or your deepest, most awesome 
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sorrows
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For they are your friends