Chords for Experience - Gentle Giant (1973)

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_ [C] _ _ [Am] Once I was a boy, I learned to [Gm] listen to life and my role in it, this will play my game, and I need one half-clown or foil for myself.
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All harmless affairs, no one seemed to care for any meaning, my life was my own, the [Gm] debt I paid, I [Am] paid it only to myself. _ _ _ _ _
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Hey, I'm seeing you, how can it be so shallow?
I'm [Gm] sure time did these years pass me by, to realise the [Am] folly of these unrighteous years. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] I grew up [C] on _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] my [F] uncle's sense of pain, [Am] many times, _ _ _ _ yet I heard [Dm] her _ [F] say, _
_ _ _ [Am] I was a boy, so there's nothing to think [D] about, _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ and [F] I'm puzzled [Am] to teach him to be _ _ _ [C] _ _
awesome, see through [F] his experience. _
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_ [F] was his _ [C] hands, _ _ [F] it was _ _ _ his [C] _ hands, [F] it was _ his _ _ [C] hands, it [F] was his _ hands. _
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_ _ [F] I'm a boy, so _ _ there's [C] nothing _ [F] to think _ _ _ _ about, [C] and I'm puzzled to teach him to be awesome, _ _
[F] _ _ _ see through his experience.
I'm a boy, _ _ [C] _
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_ _ so there's nothing to think about, and [C] I'm puzzled to teach him _ _ _
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_ [C] I'm a boy, _ [F] _ _ _
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so _ there's nothing to think about, and I'm puzzled to teach him to be awesome, see through his experience. _ _
Once I could rebel, and [Gm] consequences then had no reflection, and I am a man, and I am bound by an old age discretion now.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] a boy, so there's nothing to think about, _ _ _ _ _ and I'm puzzled to teach him to be awesome, _ see through his experience.
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_ there's nothing to think about, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and I'm puzzled to teach him to be awesome, see through his experience. _ _ _ _ _
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