Chords for Paul Simon - The Obvious Child (from The Concert in Hyde Park)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a [Fm] dog who's lost his bite
I don't [Db] expect to be treated like a fool no more
[Ab] I don't expect to sleep the nights on a beach
They say a lie is just a lie
But [Db] I say, [Gb] why deny the [Db] obvious, child?
[Gb] Why deny the [Db] obvious, [Ab] child?
_ And in remembering a road sign
I'm remembering a girl when I was young
[Db] _ _ _ [Fm] And we said, these songs are true
These days are ours, these tears are free
[Db] The [Gb] cross is in the [Db]
ballpark
The [Gb] cross is in the [Db] [Ab] ballpark _ _
Well, we [E] had a lot of fun, [Fm] had a lot of money
[Db] Had _
[Ab] a little son, thought we'd call him Sonny
[Eb] _ [Db] Sonny [Eb] gets [Ab] 90 minutes of work
[Db] [Eb] Sonny has a [Ab] day that he feels to play
[Db] [Eb] Sonny gets [Ab] sunnier day by [Db] day by [Eb] day by [Ab] day by day
I've _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ been waking up at sunrise
I've been following the light across my room
[Db] I watch the night [Gb] reveal the [Db] room of [Ab] my day
Some people say the sky is just a sky
[Db] But I say, why deny the obvious, child?
[Gb] Why deny [Db] the obvious, [Ab] child? _ _
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Sonny [Eb] sits by his window, [Db] thinks to himself
[Ab] How it's [Eb] strange that some rooms [Db] are like cages _
[Ab] Sonny's [Eb] yearbook from high [Db] school is down from the shelf
[Ab] And he [Eb] idly thumbs [Db] through the pages
Some [Bbm] have died, [Ab] some have fled from themselves _
[Db] Some [Bbm] have struggled from [Fm] here [Eb] to get there
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[Ab] Sonny [Eb] wanders beyond [Db] his interior walls
He [Ab] runs his hands [Eb] through the stilling [Db] brown air
I'm accustomed [Ab] to the smooth ride
[Fm] Or maybe I'm a dog that's lost its bite
I don't strut [Db] to be treated like a fool no more
I [Ab] don't strut [Eb] to sleep the [Ab] night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
[Db] But I say, the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the [Ab] obvious, child? _
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