Chords for BEST OF FRIENDS by Livingston Taylor

[D] Livingston, your first instrument, was it the guitar or was it the piano?
Well, when I was a little [N] boy, I studied piano.
My parents had a piano in the house.
I had a piano teacher.
I was a terrible student.
You're classically trained?
No, I'm not.
I tried to be.
My teacher, Lord knows she tried.
_ So when you say you studied the piano, I mean_
Well, she would try to teach me, but I didn't like my lessons very much.
And generally, when my piano teacher would come,
occasionally I would hide in a ditch until I was declared _ _ [F]
unfindable by my mother.
And then I would go [G] back to the piano and, you know, _ _
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_ _ _ just_
[C] The piano is very_
I love playing the [D] guitar, of course.
_ [G] But the piano _ is_
[C] it's got all the notes.
_ All neatly laid out for our convenience.
[G] _ Now, this is a [C] song_ _
Do you [G] mind if I twerk in on this?
Twerk away, [C] Linden.
All right. _
[G] This _ _ is a song.
It's called, Best of Friends.
[C] Now, this is_
I [N] look out amongst the audience, and I'm sure amongst our listeners,
there are many people who are recently together,
who have recently found each other and are feeling that excitement of an early relationship.
This song is not for you.
Go listen to something else.
Do something else for the next few minutes.
This song is for people who have been together for a very, very long [G] time.
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[G] We're the best of friends, heart and [C] soul,
Head to [A] head, [B] toe to [Em] toe,
_ [G] I'm not [C] letting go.
_ _ _ [G] _ [D] We're [G] the best of friends, I thought you knew,
[C] That the best I [B] am is [Eb] beside [Em] you,
We're a [Bm] couple of complete [C] shoes. _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] Ooh, _ _ [E] together we're [Am] a pipe dream,
[G] _ All lit up [D] and [G] smoking,
_ About [Bm] all the things [C] we'll do. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] Oh, _ [Eb] _ together [F] we [Bb] are wishes,
_ _ Why aren't we [C] _ delicious?
[Db] _ Coming [A] _ [D] _
soon.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ We're the [G] best of friends, _ are we _ [C] wise?
Thinning hair, [B] _ fuzzy [Em] eyes, your [Bm] face is my [C] best surprise.
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[C] We're [G] the best of friends, I'm here to say,
[C] It was you and me the [B] whole darn way,
[Em] Thanks for [Bm] the chance [C] to play.
_ _ _ [G] _ [Bm] Ooh, _
_ [E] together we [Am] are mystery, _
[G] Together [Gb] we are [G] magic,
I think we may [C] have soul. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [F] Oh, together the [Bb] world is brighter, _ _
Lovers, fools [C] and _ _ [A] bribers,
On [C] the road.
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We're [G] the best of friends, the drift, the sway,
[C] The give, the take, [B] _
day to [Em] day,
We're a bit in [Bm] each [C] other's way.
_ _ [G] _ [D] _ [G] And when it's time to let you go,
_ [C] At the last, [A] we'll [Eb] always [B] [Em] know,
That it [Bm] started [C] long _ ago. _ _
_ [G] With a simple, quick, [C] _
hello. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Hello, _ [C] we're the [G] best of _ friends.
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_ _ _ _ I did it as a duet with a singer you guys are probably familiar with,
Miss Carly Simon.
And Carly did, you know, she just did a _ beautiful job with the song.
It was a lot of fun.
Wasn't she your sister-in-law once?
Carly and James were married.
But I want you to know that Carly and I have known each other for,
I knew Carly before she knew James.
We've been friends a very long time.
And James doesn't mind this?
No, I don't think that James would.
I think he feels good about that.
Have you been married long?
I have been married.
I'm recently, _ _ I was married for 26 years.
_ _ _ You're recently best of friends?
Well, yeah, it's recently.
You know, life changes and situations change.
Was it hard for you?
Well, I _ _ liked being married. _ _ _
_ _ But if I'm going to be truthful, I was never a very good husband.
And _ _ _ Maggie and I are still very close.
She's still your manager.
Maggie's still my manager and she's, you know, Maggie's the best.
She's just a wonderful human being.
Let's all say hi to Maggie.
I think that's a great relationship.
One way or the other. _ _
I know she's listening.
But I can tell you, but I need to say just quickly on that issue,
when your situation with somebody changes,
the thing that I would like to implore anybody who's going through that,
the thing, if you can do,
I think that one thing that Maggie and I were able to both successfully do
or tried to do, was to own our own broken hearts.
You get into such terrible trouble when your broken heart panics you _
and then you try to assign it to somebody else.
You're the reason why I'm feeling poorly.
You should have done this.
You should have done that and then I wouldn't feel this way.
And I got to tell you, in affairs of the heart,
that is a very, very painful road to walk.
If able, it's