Chords for Old Friends / Bookends (Single Mix)

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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] Old _ _ [E] _ friends, _ _ _
_ _ [A] old _ friends, _
_ _ [B] sat on their park [E] bench like _ [C#m] bookends.
[G#m] A newspaper [C#]
blown through [B] the grass, _ falls [C#m] on the round toes of the [E] high shoes [A] of the [G#m] old friends.
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Old friends, _ _ [F#m] _ winter _ [A] companions, the old [G#m] men, _ _ [F#m] lost in [B] their [E] overcoats waiting [C#m] for the sunset. _ _ _
_ _ [C#] The sounds of the [C#m] city sifting through trees, settle [B] like dust _ _ on [A] the shoulders _ of [C#] the old [C#m] friends. _
_ _ _ _ [A] Can you [B]
imagine us [E] years from today, _ [F#m]
sharing [Am] a park bench [E] quietly? _
_ [F#m] How terribly _ [B] strange to [C#m] be seventy. _ _ _ _ _ _
Old [E] _ _ friends, _ [F#m]
memory [B] brushes the [F#m] same [G#m] _
years, _ _ [B] silently _ sharing the [E] _ same [C#m] fear. _ _
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_ _ [F#m] time it was, and what a time it was, it was.
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_ A time [A] of innocence, _ _ a time of _ confidences.
_ _ _ [F#m] Long ago it must be, _ _ I have [E] a photograph, _ _ preserve [A] your _ memories, _ they're all [E] that's left you.
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