Chords for Harry Chapin - Halfway to Heaven

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There's no tick tock [B] on your electric [G#] clock
[A] But still your [F#m] life [C#m] runs down
There's no tick tock [B] on your electric clock
[A] But still your life [C#m] runs down
I'm [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [A] _ _
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_ [E] halfway [F#m] to heaven
[G#m] And my home in [A] Forest Hills
[B] It's half [C#m] past eleven
[D] I've got some [B] time to kill
[E] I miss my [F#m] bus connection
[G#m] My train got [A] in too late
[B] And I'm forced [C#] into [C#m] reflection
[D] By this [A] half hour wait
Now [E] I have been [F#m] a straight man
[G#] And I've played it [A] by the rules
[B] I've been a good man, [C#] a good husband
[D] A good [C#m] old [B] fashioned fool
[E] I have a fine wife [F#m] and two children
[E] Just like [A] everybody's got
[B] But after fifteen [C#m] years of marriage
[D] The [A] fires don't burn too hot
Someone _ _ _ played [E] a trick on me
[G#] They set me up [C#m] so perfectly
[A] They gave me their [E] morality
And [G#] then changed the rules [C#m] they set for me
[A] Someone must be [E] laughing now
[G#] Though it don't [C#m] seem funny somehow
[A] How the [E] world's accepting now
[G#] What they once would [C#m] not allow
Back [F#] in my younger days
[B] The world has changed
[E] In so many ways
My mother once said to me
[F#m] So many years ago now
[G#] Don't you [A] touch those bad [G#m] girls
So I [A] never had [G#m] girls
Until I had [A] my Mary
[D] When we're married
[G#m] My Mary then [A] had my two [G#m] sons
My life as a [A] lover was already done
[G#m] It was over [A] before it [D] had really [A] begun
_ Someone _ played [E] a trick on me
[G#] They sent this little [C#m] girl to me
[A] She is my [E] new secretary
[G#] And she's something [C#m] to see
Yeah, [F#] she's a nice girl
But [B] it's a young world
And [E] she lives her life [A] so free
[E] And she sure gets through [A] to me
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She [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [E] brings a pad into [F#m] my office
She [G#m] wears a sweater [A] and a skirt
_ [B] Somewhere deep [C#m] inside of me
[D] Something [B] starts to hurt
[E] She's wearing [F#m] nothing underneath
[G#m] I can see what [A] there's to see
[B] She smiles and [C#m] says you wanted me
[D] I'd [A] have to agree
_ You _ know how [E] much I want her
[G#] And I know [C#m] that I could have her
[A] I [E] know I [C#m] could, I know she would
Make love to me
[B] So wonderfully [C#m] _ goddamn
_ [F#] I'm one crazy [B] mixed up mixture [C#m] of a man _ _ _
_ [E] In my head all my life I've been a sinner
[A] And [E] in my bed with just [A] my wife
I'm [E] still a beginner
[A] [E] But tomorrow [A] night [E] I'm taking [F#m] that little girl
Out [C#] to dinner
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