Chords for Growin' Up (Live at the Roxy Theatre, W. Hollywood, CA - July 1978)

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There I was one night
_ _ _ Just a normal guy
_ and then
There I was
the next night
_ _ _ God damn, I was still just a normal guy
_ _ _ When I stood stone like at midnight
Suspended in my masquerade
Then I combed my hair.
It was just right and come a handed the night brigade
[F] When I was open [C] the pain had burst by the way I walked [G] on a crooked brush
[F] I strode along to a fallout song
I [G] came out with my soul untouched
Hit him in the glottal and ran to the crowd
When they said sit down [Am] I stood up
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Ooooooo Growing [D] up
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[F] The flag of policy flew [C] from my mask
My sails were set [G] one to one
Why haven't you boxed graduate for first grade?
She wouldn't [C] sell us a short boy's son
Why push me 52?
Bothered [F] with the boos
[C] My peers said stubborn or stout
Why broke all the rules, draped my whole high school
Never once gave thought to [F] landing
[G] Hit him in the glottal and ran to the crowd
When they [Am] said come down I stood up
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_ [G] Ooooooo Growing [C] up _
Big man, assist me please
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_ [Dm] think, I ain't [C] sure
But I think
[Dm] My mother and father and my sister they're here again [D] tonight _ _
[Dm] Hey you guys out there
You over there? _ _
_ _ [G] For six years they've been following me around [F] California
[D] Trying to get me to come back home
_ _ _ Give it up, huh?
_ _ _ Give me a break _
I _ don't know, they're over there somewhere _
But, you know, they're still trying to get me to go back to college
Every time I come in the house
You know, it's not too late, you can still go back to college
They tell me
I [Dm] say alright, alright
But it's funny cause
When I was growing up
There [F] were two things that were unpopular in my house
[C] One was me
[Dm] And the other one was my guitar
_ And my father
Used to sit in the kitchen
And we had this grate like the heat's supposed to come through
Except it wasn't hooked up to any like heating ducts
It was just open [G] straight down to the kitchen
[F] And there was a gas [A] stove right underneath it
And when I used to start playing
[C] He used to turn on the gas jets
And try [Dm] to smoke me out of my room _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] I used to always refer to this guitar
You [F] know, never Fender guitar, Gibson [Dm] guitar
It was always the goddamn guitar
_ Every, stuck [Cm] his head in my door
That's all [A] I'd hear
Turn down that goddamn guitar
He [Dm] used to try to get me to be a lawyer
[D] And it was funny cause I was in a motorcycle accident when I was 17
And like this cat just, [G] you know, ran head on into me
And then got out and yelled at me for ruining his Cadillac
[Dm] And we had like a suit, a legal suit
And my father took me down to this lawyer in [F] town
He said, oh man I gotta defend this
I looked about, just about exactly the same way I look right now
_ [C] And like I remember we were going to court right
The day of the suit, like I'm like in the [D] right
I just got hit, my legs messed up
And I remember my lawyer telling me
If I was a judge I'd find [F] you guilty
_ _ [Dm] _ Just for being there I guess
_ [C] But anyway
[G] My father [Dm] always said, you know
You should be a lawyer, you know
Get [D] a little something for yourself
You [G] know, my [F] mother
[G] You know, she used to say
No, no, [A] no, no
He should be an author, [C] he should write books
[G] You know, that's a good life
You could get a little something for yourself
But like what they didn't [C] understand was
Was that I wanted everything
[A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] So you guys, one of you guys wanted a lawyer
Another one wanted an author Well, tonight
These are both just gonna
Have to settle for rock and roll
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I took one long vocations in the stratosphere
[C] You know it's really hard to hold your breath
I swear I [F] lost everything I ever loved to fear
[C] I was a cosmic kid
My feet they finally [G] took me to the earth
I [F] got me a nice [G] little place and the stars
I swear I found the key to the universe
In the [C] ancient little port port
[G] Right here in the cloud and right after the cloud
When it [Am] sets it down I sing _
[F] _ [N] Ooooooo _ _ _ _ _
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