Chords for Joe Bethancourt - When I Was A Boy

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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, that was _ _ a [G] long time ago.
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_ _ _ [Fm] _ Long time ago. _
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Very far away.
[C] _ _ Now when I _ [G] was a boy, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] my, [Em] my, _
_ [Abm] _ my, my Nintendo [C] _ _
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_ [F] _ was carved [Ab] from an old [F] apple tree.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ And we used garden hose to connect it _ [B]
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_ _ [C] _ our steam [G]-powered color TV.
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But it sure [Eb] beat that ancient [C] Atari, _ _
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_ [F] _ cause I almost went blind, don't you know?
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ Playing Breakout and Pong _ [C] _
on a video [Am] game _ _ that [D] _ _ was hooked up to our [G] radio. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] And we walked twenty _ miles to [C] the _ schoolhouse, _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ barefoot and uphill, [C] both ways, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ through blizzards in summer [C] and winter, _
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back in the good old [G] dead _ days.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Back when Fortran was not even [C] 3-tran, _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
and the mainframe was only a [C] toy, _
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and we did our computing by [C] gaslight.
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_ [G] Back when I _ _ [C] was a boy, _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ [C] _ when I was [G] a boy, _ _ all [C] our, _ all our _ networks _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ were for hauling in fish from the sea.
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_ _ [F] The baud rate was 8 bits an [C] hour, _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ and [D] our IP address _ was [G] just _ 3.
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Yeah, [F] _ and all you [C] kids that think that the World Wide Web _ _ _ _ is [F] slow, _ _ you [C] got cut out your bitchin'. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Cause when I was a boy, _ [C] every package _ [Am] _ _ _ was [D] delivered by passenger [G] pigeon. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] And we walked twenty miles [C] to the schoolhouse, _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
barefoot and uphill, both [Em] _
[C] ways, _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ through blizzards in summer [C] and winter, _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ back in the good old [G] dead _ days. _ _ _ _
[F] Back when _ _ _ _ Fortran was not even [C] 2-tran, _
_ _ _ _ [F] and the PC, _ it was [C] only a toy, _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ and we did our computing by [C] torchlight. _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ Back when [G] I, _ when I [C] was a boy, _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ now when I [A] was a boy, our [D] machine shop _ _ _ _ _ [G] built relational tables _ [D] of wood.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And we wrappered the data _ [D] in oilcloth _ to _ _ _ [E] _
_ preserve it the way that we [A] should.
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And we carried the data in a bucket, [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] and our mainframe weighed _ 900 [D] tons, _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ and we programmed in ones [D] and in zeros, _ _ _ _ [E] and sometimes, _ _ sometimes we ran out [A] of ones. _ _ _ _
[G] And we walked twenty _ miles to the [D] _ schoolhouse, _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ _ barefoot and uphill, both [D] ways, _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ through blizzards in summer and [D] winter, _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [E] _ back in the good old dead [A] _ _ days.
_ _ [G] Back when Fortran was not even 1 [D]-tran, _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] and the abacus was only a [D] toy,
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[G] _ we did our computing in [D] _ primordial [Em] darkness.
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