Chords for Growing Old

Close your eyes my [Bb] child
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ It's been a long [Bb] hard day
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Your mummy says
_ That [Bb] you're much too rough _ _ _ when [F] you're out at play. _ _ _ _
I was just a little boy [Bb] like you are
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
But I was a rebel at my [Bb] school
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Sticking bubble gum
_ _ Down [Bb] the inkwell
_ _ _ _ _ [F] And writing
_ silly rhymes [Bb] upon my rule _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Goodbye
_ _ My [Bb] dear father _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ You lived a good long [Bb] life _ _ _ _ _
[F] But you left us all _ _
Much [Bb] too quickly _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] My
_ My my half [Bb]-time flies _ _ _ _
[F] Still never mind my faithful [Bb] mother _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Try those hard broken [Bb] tears _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] I'll do the best
_ That I [Dm] can dear _ _ _
[F] But I can never bring you back those [Dm] 15
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Trying _ must _ [Bb] go _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Like the Sun surely sink [Bb] from the sky
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
Time
_ _ Waits [Bb] not for any man
_ _ _ _ [F] Comes the day when we all must say [Bb] goodbye _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ We're all subject to [Bb] the same _ _
_ _ _ [F] And time _
Is creeping [Bb] still _ _ _
_ _ Though we pretend it just _ [Bb] doesn't happen that way _ _
_ [F] The hours _ _ _ we [Bb] just live to fill _ _ _
_ [F] Good
_ My _ _ [Bb] dear
_ _ _ father _
_ [F] _ _ _ We're all traveling down [Bb] your road _ _ _ _
[F] No matter how
_ We may [Bb] struggle _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ Everyone of us [Bb] is surely
_ _ _ grow _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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