Chords for Artie Traum: 1943-2008

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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _
_ _ [E] I got [B] a little story for you. _
[G#] It's a true story, John.
[Bm] Yeah, totally true.
You know, you can trust me. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ Late last [E] summer, _ _ the sun [G] was [D] turning [E] red.
_ _ [D] _ Quicksand [E] was up to my neck.
There were mosquitoes all around my head.
_ I got [Em] a fever, [D] _ _
[A] and I got it in a candy swamp.
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[E] _ _ I got a [G] fever, _ _ [A] and I got it in a [E] Yankee [D] swamp.
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[F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [F] Now [G] me and Ronnie, just a couple [F] of [C] kids,
_ Up on the [G] roof on a summer night,
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[F] With a book [C] of [G] poetry in the back [F] of [C] the hood,
_ Under [F] the [G] glow of a [Gm] dozen streetlights.
[F#] _ [F] _ Can we run away, _ get out [E] of this town?
_ [Em] _
_ [A] _ Let's run away, now.
[Am] There's a fog over the [G] city.
We could leave [Am] without [G] a [F] trace.
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_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _
Life [A] is [F#] sad.
Life is a [G#m] bust.
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All you can do, do what you must.
You gotta do [B] what you [E] [D] must.
[B] I know what I gotta do. _
Do [F#] it well, or do best again.
_ Pretty good.
Well, [C#] I'd do it for you.
[B] _ _ [A#m] Honey, [G#m] baby, can't [F#] you tell?
[D#] Everybody, [F#] talk like Bob.
_ [D] I'd do [C#] it for [B] you.
Do it for you.
[A#m]
Honey, [D#] baby, can't [F#] you [C#] tell?
[B] I'd do it for you.
[F#] Come on, here we go.
[C#] Yes, I'd do it for [B] you.
I'd do it for [A#m] you.
Honey, [G#m] baby, [A#] can't you tell?
[F#] Do it for you. _
_ _ _ _ [E] Well, now you put them in the pot,
And you put them [A] in the pan,
And you cook them till they're nice and [Em] brown.
[E] _ Cook up a bunch of whole cakes, Pat [F#] Girdley.
Cook them on up [Bm] and toss them on [E] down.
Well, many fish bite if you got good bait.
[A] Here's a little tale I'd like [Em] to [E] relate.
Many fish bite if you got good bait.
Sing it, I'm a-goin' fishin'.
[A] I'm a-goin' fishin'.
[E] My baby's goin' fishin' too.
John Sebastian.
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I usually [N] have three pieces of equipment I bring with me.
The guitar, a capo, and a tuner.
And I usually forget two of the three.
_ I usually forget the guitar and the tuner.
_ [G] _ _ So I spend an hour or [E] so playing my capo. _ _ _ _ _
I'm down on bended _ _ knees.
See me cry _ _ again. _ _
_ _ _ _ I cry like an angel _ _ in the hills of Sicily.
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_ Yes, I cry [F#m] like an angel [E] in [Bm] _ the hills [E] of Sicily. _ _
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Yes, I cry like an angel _ _ in the hills of Sicily. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Thank you, [A] guys.
It was a lot of fun. _ _ _ _ _
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