F#
Mother, once I awoke as an old man,
F#
my name was Stanley Forbes,
F#
and I threw tin cans
F#
at everyone who passed my porch.
F#
I don't know why I did,
F#
but I didn't throw them at the kids so
F#
I was a good guy!
[Chorus 1]
B
I remember yellin' hi, Too loo rye
F#
It's the day before I die
B
So why, Too loo rye
F#
Cause everybody is walking by?
B
Oh hi, Too loo rye
F#
It's the day before I die
Bm
And I wanna sigh and cry
F#
Alongside my brothers
[Verse 2]
F#
Mother, once I awoke as a squirrel
and I jumped from tree to tree to tree to tree,
it was me at the acme of my career,
F#
I saved all I caught that year,
which is a lot of acorns let me tell you.
I was very resourceful
[Chorus 2]
B
and I cried, Too loo rye
F#
This is how it feels to fly so high
B
So high, Too loo rye
F#
This ain't nothing cash could buy,
B
oh hi, Too loo yre
F#
Tomorrow, I could die
Bm F#
So I'm gonna climb the pines and have myself a time
[Verse 3]
F#
Mother, I dreamt I died last night.
See I was a lightbulb, left on a little too long
and I burned till I was dead
with a hundred good ideas in my head
F#
but I forgot 'em all
and they tried to throw me away, But hey,
when they grabbed ahold of me
they all would burn their hands and see
F#
that I was still quite hot with thought
and so a little thought they got that
they should keep me as a kind of warmth
you can't get from a stove or hearth.
F#
So I sought and thought and fraught and fought
but then cooled down and said
[Chorus 3]
B
Oh hi, Too loo rye
F#
To think I had a light inside when
B
I try, Too loo rye
F#
To remember what I wanted to find
B
so, sigh, Too loo rye
F#
I thought that I had died
Bm
But I think tonight I've got it right,
F#
I'm Stanley and the squirrel the invisible light,
B
I'm a lover liar, humble fire,
F#
I'm a little spider and a chicken on the wire
B
climbin' tryin', sighin' cryin'
F#
laughin' highfivin' slowly dyin'
[Outro]
B F#
But I swear now that's alright,
B F#
yeah I swear now that's alright,
B F#
mother, I'm alright
