Chords for Augie March - When I Am Old (Official Video)

_ _ _ _ When I am old, not if, but when, _ _ ailments [C] will derail, _ _ [B] not end. _
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
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_ _ The [Dm] myths will fail not to open, [Am] more later years which I will spend [C] alone. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Hello, _ what is the male [Dm] kind of crowd? _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] All the women dress for cold underarm, [G] nothing suggests I will not be alone [C] when I'm _ old.
_ _ _ [Am] When I am old, there will be no [Em] more lions, _ _ _ only [G] the prison, _ _ _ product [F] of aliens. _
A _ [C] bestial bull who's never told, _ _ [G] fire that does not rage is cold, [B] cold flames are the tongues that sing.
[Am] Dying, there's no point [C] in lying about being old, men dress for the morning, the morning, [G] _ nothing suggests I will not be more [C] alone when I'm old. _
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_ _ When I [Em] _ am _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] old, not if, it is simple, but when, _ [G] _ I'll take a wood load of roughly ten, [B] _ measure the hours [F] by some bushels [Am] blend, read the papers from start to end.
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_ _ _ [G] Hello, _ _ _ what is the male [B] kind of cold? _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] I give the obituary special attention, [G] _ each of [G] my neighbours has a dimension.
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_ _ _ [Am] When I am old, there will be no [Em] more waiting, _ for you cannot [G] come waiting, _ when there are no [F] more waves in the deep blue sea.
[C] My instincts have always been good, [G] not that I ever listened at all.
[B] If I lay in a birding bed, [Am] I'd wait it for the rain to fall, [C] hold them to see what they're leaving behind, [G] and thank small mercies for going blind.
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_ _ When [Am] I am old, I will have no [Em] _ providers, _ _ no master, [G] no spender, when, _ for I [F] could do's to leave them behind, _ [C] no spark in their pen, no murder in their [G] lips.
Smothering sickly candles in, [B] no love to address, no message to pen, [Am] when I am old, I'll take heroin.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] When I am old, I will have no [Em]
providers, _ _ _ no master, [G] no spender, when, _ _ for I [F] could do's to leave them behind, _ [C] no