F#m E C#m B F#m E C#m
I found you in the summer heat, of 1953
B F#m E C#m
Wise words from your father said
B F#m E
"I know that boy's your brother's friend,
C#m B F#m E
but I don't think he keeps comin' round for him
C#m B A
Again and again and again."
[Verse 2]
F#m E
I had to swim away,
C#m B F#m E C#m
Semper Fi but I'll be back someday
B F#m E
I'll take you by the hand and say:
C#m B A B
"Be mine, be mine, be mine."
[Chorus]
E C#m A
And if someday, you grow tired and your memory fades,
E C#m A
it's alright, I will never leave your side
E A F#m G#m A
And oh, when it's time, you can come find me,
F#m G#m E
in 1953
[Verse 3]
F#m E
Leave New York and see the countryside
C#m B F#m E
Little city and a bigger life
C#m B F#m E
Watch it grow into a thousand eyes
C#m B A
It's ours, it's ours, it's ours
C#m B A
Oh, it's ours, it's ours, it's ours
[Chorus]
E C#m A
And if someday, you grow tired and your memory fades,
E C#m A
it's alright, I will never leave your side
E A F#m G#m A
And oh, when it's time, you can come find me,
F#m G#m E
in 1953
[Bridge]
E
It's written in the gold rain
C#m B
Passed down the light
E
Hangin' in the branches
C#m B
You see it in their eyes
E
Pressed in the concrete
C#m B
Where we used to reside
A B
It's larger than life
[Chorus]
E C#m A
And if someday, you grow tired and your memory fades,
E C#m A
it's okay. And when my heart gives away,
E C#m A
it's alright, I will never leave your side
E A F#m G#m A
And oh, when it's time, just come find me
F#m G#m E
in 1953
