Chords for Simple Days

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[G#m] was born on the [G#] north side of a big [C#] western [F#] town.
There [G#m] was none of us [F#] living in a big [C#] metal room.
I was dead.
[G#m] Didn't have much money.
[F#] _ [C#] We made do.
[F#] Cause mama [G#m] worked all day [G#] long and [C#] daddy did [F#] too.
[D#] Did all they could [A#m] to make sure we had clothes and food.
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Went to public schools and [C#] went by the public roof.
[D#m] We used [D#] second hand books.
[A#m] No one didn't mind the books.
[G#]
Mama taught us how to live.
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_ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] Everybody's got to struggle sometimes.
We [F#]
went [G#m] to school yard fights.
Had a thing [C#] for pretty girls. _
Didn't cost much money [B] to see [C#] the show.
[F#] So we hopped [G#m] the bus into [B] town.
That's where all the [C#] girls used to go see.
[D#m] _
Fifty cents would buy us [A#m] _ popcorn for two.
[G#]
Cause Bobby's girl she worked there.
And [C#] sometimes she'd break the rules.
[D#m] _
Picnics in the summer.
[A#m] Wouldn't wake up till noon.
[G#] And even though Bobby's gone [D#m] now.
I can still hear [C#] him now.
In [F#] the middle of June.
We [G#m] went to school all the time.
[C#] Just to play.
[F#] My friend [G#m] was a man.
My friend [C#] was a man.
Bring [G#m] back those [F#] symbols of [C#] yesterday.
[F#] What you said.
[G#] What you meant.
And you meant [C#] what you said.
[A#m] _
Sometimes I sit I [F#m] wonder.
I reminisce I think [G#m] of all the times.
_ [C#] That we [C#m] had in our lives.
[A#m] _
Sometimes I kick [F#m] it over.
I wonder if [G#m] those days were back in our lives.
_ [D#m] Simple [C#] days for [F#] simple times.
[G#] And when the sun goes down.
I'll [C#] be standing there.
[F#] And my friend [G#m] was a man.
[F#] My friend [C#] was a man.
Was [F#] a man yeah.
Bring [G#] back those symbols I loved it.
[C#] Yesterday.
Yesterday.
[F#] What you said.
[G#] What you meant.
And you meant [C#] what you said.
Bring [G#] back those symbols of yesterday.
[C#] _ [F#] Yesterday.
A man [G#] was a man.
A man was a man.
Was [C#] a man yeah.
Bring [G#] back those symbols I loved it. [C#] Yesterday.
[F#] Yesterday.
What you said.
[G#] What you meant.
And you meant [C#] what you said.
[F#]
Bring [G#m] back those symbols [F#] I loved it.
[C#] Yesterday.
He [F#] was a man, he [G#] was a man A man was a man, a man was a man
He was a friend, he [C#] was a friend Word up and say him
[G#] Bring back those simple times, yeah [C#] Yesterday he [F#] and you said
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