Chords for Dianne Reeves & Her Group - Nine

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I [Bb] remember not _ as [Em] if it were _ yesterday.
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[G] _ _ I [F] can hear my friends _ outside of my window _ [G] say, can you [C] come out and play? _ _
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[G] _ Anna [Bb] brought a bag _ of [Em] her mama's cooking [C] spoons.
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ So [F] we could dig a hole _ and try to reach China, _ but get there by [C] early _ noon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ Imagination's [F] sort of golden rings across [Bb] the sky [C] _
[Dm] _ _ [G] filled with _ _ dreams.
[B] _ Any [Em] child could wear [E] a paper crown and be [Ab] a king or _ [Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ queen.
_ _ _ [Am] At _ _ night, _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ [Cm] I _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ remember [Dm] _ days _ of [C] playing _ _ without a care.
_ Then [F] coming home with sniffles and _ clothes hanging off me with [C] leaves in my hair. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] Everybody's child, _ _ [Em] belong _ _
[Am] to neighborhood. _ _ _
So you could [F] tell your [B] troubles to [Dm] old [F] Aunt Savannah, cause she _ [C]
always _ _ understood. _ _ _
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[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] Yeah.
Running _ in the snow, a field of emerald green, near the [Gm] [C] broad _ [Bb] _ _ [G]
open [Gbm] sky.
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I will [E] treasure [C] my days when I'm _ _ [Ab] innocent and free, _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ yeah.
[G] At nine, _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] oh, [F] nine, yeah.
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_ [G] Oh, _ we [Bb] used to play all kind of games [Am] when we were nine.
_ _ [C] First of all, _ the [Bb] summer seemed like it [F] lasted for a year.
Now it [Ab] seems to go by too [C] fast.
_ [Bb] But I remember when I would get [F] up in the morning, my mother
[D] would say, you [C] are making entirely too much [Bb] noise.
Go [F] outside in the [G] backyard.
[Ab] I go out there in [E] about five minutes, my friends would be [Bb] there.
[C] We could create an entire [D] world [G] filled with all kind of stuff
that no adult could [F] even [E]
see [F] or hear.
But we heard [D] it.
[G] We used to [Em] play all [Bb] kind of games, made up [C] games, anything that [Ab] came our way.
_ [G] Oh, _ [Gm]
games, [F] games like
[C] jumping _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] and skipping and laughing, rolling and shaking and joking and [G] hiding.
Mother, may I sign?
[Dm] And says, you're it.
[Am] You spit, hide and [C] seek.
You know [Em] I did.
And yes, you did.
[Bb] You're unfair.
I don't care.
I [Am] saw Sammy's [Fm] underwear, _ _ [Em]
double dutch [Dm] kickball, [Am] hopscotch,
bobby socks, merry man, [Ab] all dressed in [Em] black.
Who was that?
And she [Bb] played jacks.
I'm the [Am] doctor, you're the nurse.
[Fm] What you mean, [G] I was first.
Pushing and shoving [Bb] and crying and screaming [F] and dreaming and beaming and [D] dancing.
In [G] a line, you show [Dm] me yours.
[C] I'll show you mine.
Uh-huh.
I'm [D] going home.
It's dinner [Em] _ time.
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Yeah.
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_ _ [G] _ Oh, no, me, [Am] _ _
me, me.
[D] _ Yeah, [G] _
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_ [D] _ _ [Em] yeah, _ [Gm] yeah Yeah, a.
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Still
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_ _ _ _ _ Realness _ deep inside [Dm] of _ _ _ _ _ _ me
[C] _ _ _ Yeah _ _ Yeah _
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_ _ _ [G] Thank _ _ _
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_ you _ _ Thank you _