Chords for A Reason For It All( Eric Bogle)

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_ Okay, I'm ready.
_ _ [N] I wish I hadn't done that in the morning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Summer's smiling [C] on the city.
[F] It's another lovely [Bb] day in the [Bb] city.
_ Sunshine [Cm] pouring down like a [F] golden _ [Bb] waterfall.
_ _ _ But in the room [Cm] where Claire is dying,
[F] No sunshine [Bb] sends its shadows flying.
No children gathered [Cm] round are [Eb] crying.
[F] There's no one [Bb] there at all.
_ [C] Except perhaps for the one who sees
[F] Each little [Bb] sparrow fall. _ _ _ _ _ _
Don't talk to me, my lonely soul's crying.
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Dark white [Bb] rooms and old people dying.
I [Eb] don't wanna hear, [F] don't wanna hear [Bb] it at _ all.
_ _ _ Lonely old people die every day.
_ [F] Don't blame me, [Bb] I didn't make it that way.
[Eb] That's just how it is.
[Bb] [F] Don't look for a [Bb] reason at all.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Winter weeping [Cm] on the city.
[F] A wet and windy [Bb] day in the city. _ _
Raindrops [Cm] rolling fast in the head.
_ [F] Down Claire's window [Bb] pane.
_ _ The raindrops on [Cm] the tin roof beaten.
[F] As tender as [Bb] they are feeding.
Like tooth and nest [Cm] they all go creeping.
[F] Leaving Claire alone [Bb] _ again.
_ [C] It's been a long and lonely time.
[F] Since Claire could hear [Bb] the rain. _ _ _ _
_ Don't talk to me about the meaning of life.
[F] Don't sing [Bb] songs and cut like a knife.
[Eb] I don't wanna hear, [F] don't wanna hear [Bb] it at _ _ all. _
_ Lonely old people _ ain't my concern.
[F] From dust we come, [Bb] to dust we return.
[Eb] And that's all there is.
[F] Don't look for a reason [Gm] at all.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Springtime's come [Cm] at last to sit there.
[F] The flowers are blooming [Bb] endless. _
_ In all their [Cm] multicolored glory.
[F] They rise to [Bb] greet the year. _
_ _ Memories in [C] the chamber [Gm]
calling.
[F] _ Footsteps on [Bb] the front porch calling.
_ Voices [Cm] through the window calling.
[F] Is anybody [Bb] _ there?
[C] Claire Campbell's lost, an only soul.
[F] Is a long, long way [Bb] from here.
_ _ _ _ _ Don't talk to me about life's seasons.
[F] Don't ask me for answers, [Bb] don't ask me for reasons.
[Eb] I don't wanna hear, [F] don't wanna hear [Bb] it at all.
_ _ _ From the moment we're born, we start to die.
[F] A man can go [Bb] crazy if he keeps asking why.
[Eb] That's just how it is.
[F] Don't look for a reason [Bb] at all. _
_ _ _ _ Can't you understand what I'm trying to say?
There [F] must be a method, [Bb] there must be a way to make [Eb] sense of it.
[F] To try to find a reason [Bb] for it all.
_ _ _ _ _ We're born just so we can die.
[F] There must be an answer, [Bb] and we've got to try to make sense of [Eb] it. _
[F] To try to find a reason [Bb] for it all. _
_ _ _ _ Can't you understand what I'm trying to say?
[F] There must be an answer, [Bb] there must be a way to [Eb] make sense of it.
[F] To try to find a reason [Bb] for it all.
_ _ _ _ From the moment we're born, we start to die.
[F] There must be an answer, and [Bb] we've got to try [Eb] to make sense of it.
[F] To try to find [C] a [Bb] reason for it all.
_ _ _ That's [Eb] just how it is.
[F] Don't look for a reason [Bb] for it all.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] There must be a way, [F] there must be some reason [Bb] for it all. _ _ _ _ _ _ _