https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz7PhyU3OeE
[Chords]
G Em A7sus4 A7 C9 D/F# GM7 Am C/G C/B
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B|---0-----0-----3-----2-----3-----3-----0-----1-----1-----1---|
G|---0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----0-----1-----0-----0---|
D|---0-----2-----2-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----0---|
A|---2-----2-----0-----0-----3-----x-----2-----0-----3-----2---|
E|---3-----0-----x-----x-----x-----2-----3-----x-----3-----x---|
[Verse 1]
G Em
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing
A7sus4 A7 C9
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
G G D/F# Em
News guy wept when he told us, earth was really dying
A7sus4 A7 C9
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
[Pre-Chorus 1]
G GM7
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
D/F# Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s
A7sus4 A7
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
C9
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
Am C/B C/G
And all the fat-skinny people,
C/B Am C/G
and all the tall-short people,
G C/G
and all the nobody people,
D7
and all the somebody people
Am C/G
I never thought I'd need so many people
[Verse 2]
G G D/F# Em
A girl my age went off her head, and hit some tiny children
A7sus4 A7 C9
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
G GM7 G D/F# Em
A soldier with a broken arm fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A7sus4 A7 C9
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and then a queer threw up at the sight of that
G GM7 G D/F# Em
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long
A7sus4 A7 C9
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, I don't think you knew you were in this song
[Pre-Chorus 2]
G D/F#
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
A7sus4 A7
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
C9
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
[Chorus]
G D/F#
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
A7sus4 A7
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C9
Five years, that's all we've got
G D/F#
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
A7sus4 A7
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C9
Five years, that's all we've got
[Outro]
G G D/F#
We've got five years
Em
Five years
A7sus4 A7
Five years
C9 G
Five years, that's all we've got