Chords for Barnum (Original Broadway Cast) - 4. Thank God I'm Old

_ _ _ [B] _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] When you see the shape [Bb] the world is in, when [Eb] the way it is ain't what it's been,
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[Bb] when folks just care for [Eb] gold, thank God I'm old.
[Gbm] When you [Bb] take a stand or ask the news, when you [Eb] hear the language people yell,
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when no sweet song's been [F] sung, [Bb] [Eb] gotta be young.
[Fm] _
_ HIV, [Eb] _ does it threat [Fm] me?
Should [Bb] he spy [Cm] me?
That's so ugly, [Bb] me, let him IV.
[C] Come and get [Ab] me, that's fun by [Eb] me.
Don't worry me, when you [Bb] see the way folks misbehave,
when it's [Eb] only good times that they crave, [Bb]
when kids are much too bold.
[Eb] When there [Bb] ain't no weakness left alive, when they [Eb] play a three-man out of five,
[Bb]
end up locked up or hung, I don't [Eb] wanna be young.
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_ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ Get [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] me dressed and plowed and downed, call [Eb] myself a hack and run it down.
[Bb]
See every shady [Eb] street, meet me once rolled up, [F] then I'm gonna [Bb] slip back on the shelf,
[Eb] have a little nip and tell my pal.
[Ab]
Go my back, [C] what was the plan?
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My hair's like [C] a little re-act.
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When I see all of my [F] friends [Bb] bleed and it's blood.
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