Chords for Don McLean - Three Flights Up

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_ _ _ _ On the first floor, _ _ _ on the first floor, _ on _ the first floor there's a young girl reeling
Her body's numb and without feeling, as illusions dance on the midnight ceiling
Now she's falling, now she's kneeling It's _ [Bbm]
almost [Eb] like she's bowed in [Bbm] prayer
A savior [Eb] she's about to bear [Gb] She screams for help, but no one's there
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On the [Eb] first floor, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
on the first floor people walk the halls
But none can hear her desperate calls There is no sound beyond the walls
So to the telephone she calls _ [Bbm] She [Cm] telephones her only friend
[Bbm] The one on whom [Eb] she can depend [Gb] But the phone rings on without an end
Then rings no [Db] more
_ On _ _ _ [Abm] the first [Eb] floor _ _ _
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There's a [Cm] party on the second floor And [Eb] through the picture [Bb] window [Eb] you can see
them all _ _ _ _ They're laughing [Cm] and they're dancing
[F] [Eb] Admiring the Renoir that's hanging on the wall
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in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high
A silent satin lady thinks of what it's like to die
_ And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face
_ She _ wonders how she'll ever find someone to take his place _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] [Bb] Then suddenly she's jarred [Eb] by the ringing [Bb] of the [Bbm] phone
[Eb] Oh, [Bb] why do you ring now just [Eb] when I want [Ab] to be alone?
_ _ So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup _ _ _
_ But the telephone stops ringing _ _ just before [Fm] she picks it up _ _
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[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] My [Eb] family was very [Ab] poor [Eb] So [Ab] I worked [Eb] hard to be [Ab] secure
[Fm] I _ married [Eb] one I had to wed _ _ _ [F] Not the one I [Eb] loved [Ab] instead
[Bb] When [Bbm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ I was young my blood ran wild _ But we stayed married for the child
[Fm] _ Now three flights [Eb] up I'm all alone [C] My _ [Cm] _
wife is dead, [F] my [C] child is grown
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And [Bbm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _
my [Ab] daughter [Eb] leads a wayward [Ab] life [Eb]
She's been [Ab] a failure [Eb] as a wife
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[Fm] _ And though she lives [Eb] just one floor down [Cm] She _ never [F] calls or comes [Ab] around
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Step off the platform and onto the train _ Look out your window and into the rain
_ _ Watch all the buildings that pass as [F] you [Eb] ride
[Ebm] Count all the [Eb] stories that go on inside
And then ask yourself [Cm] if it must be this way
_ [Fm] Should walls and doors [Bbm] and plaster ceilings [Ab] _ _
Separate us [Bb] from each [Eb] other's [Bb] feelings?
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