Chords for Hal Linden "Hungry Years Poignant Parody"

_ We have indeed been waxing nostalgic this evening.
We're not alone.
We're not alone.
We are smack in the middle of an era of nostalgia.
_ But it makes you wonder, you know, raises the question to me, why?
What's the draw?
What is it we're looking for?
Why, why, what's that?
Youth?
Oh no, I don't want to go through that again. _
I'll tell you what I think it is.
I think we're looking for the one thing we can never regain once we've lost.
_ _ Innocence.
The first time.
That can be only one first time for anything.
First date, first dance, first kiss.
Yeah, that too. _
Your first apartment.
Do you remember your first apartment? _
We were so proud of how much we did with nothing. _
Is there anyone here who has never had a bookcase made of bricks and lumber? _ _
And whatever happened to [F] burlap [Ab] drapes?
_ Oh yeah, _ we made a lot out of nothing.
[Eb] We sat on two old orange crates,
[Abm] ate [B] franks and beans from paper [Eb] plates.
A [Db] bedroom was [Eb] a mattress on the floor.
[Dbm] The two [G] of us [Fm] had nothing. _
[Abm] _ And [Bb] we needed [Eb] nothing more.
[Abm] _ _ _ [Db] [Gb] We window shopped Fifth Avenue,
[Bm] rubbed elbows with [Gb] the well-to-do.
My [D] trousers were as shiny [Gb] as my shoes.
[F] The [Bb] two of [Ebm] us had something _ _ _ when we had [Abm] nothing to lose.
_ [Gb] _ _ [Db] I miss [Gb] the hungry _ years,
the [Bm] once upon a time,
the [Gb] lovely long ago [Ebm] we [Gb] didn't have a dime.
[Ebm] And something that we shared [B] _ _
[Gb] [Bm] got lost [Gbm] along the [Db] way.
_ [Dbm] _
_ [E] I [Gb] couldn't tell you how, _ I couldn't [Bm] tell you when.
I only [Gb] know that now [Ebm] we can't [Gb] go home again.
_ [Ebm] Something [Abm] disappears. _
_ _ [Dbm] I [Ab] miss [Gb] the hungry _ _
_ [B] years.
[Ab] _ [Bb] [Eb] Well, we've paid our dues and here we are.
[Abm] And if we feel like caviar, [Eb] it's caviar [F]
with truffles and [Eb] champagne.
_ The hungry years are [Ab] memories,
_ _ [F] _ _ [B] but the [Gm] memories [Eb]
remain.
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Db] [Gb] Those shiny trousers, franks and beans,
[Ab] the way we laughed at limousines,
[Gb] that world is [D] gone, that [Gb] world that seemed ideal.
[Fm] [Bb] Was [Ebm] it something we imagined?
[Eb] [Gb] Yes, [Ebm] we imagined.
[Ab] _ [Abm] Ah, but it [B] was real.
_ [Abm] _ I miss [B] the hungry _ years,
[Bm] the once upon a time,
the [Gb] lovely long [Ebm] ago we [Gb] didn't have a dime.
[Ab] We [Abm] lived our dreams alone,
_ [B] _ [Bm] and then those [Gb] dreams came [Ebm] true.
_ [Bbm] _ [Ebm] _ [Dbm] _ [G] [B] That we'd won, so [Bm] thankful we still care.
But honey, [Bbm] half the [Ebm] fun, the fun [Gb] was getting there.
[Ab] [Ebm] Laughing [Abm] through our _
_ _ [Db] tears.
[B] _ _ [Gbm] And as we go [A] on through the passing years,
the [Gbm] innocence is gone,
and the [Bm] hunger disappears.
_ [D] _ _ [Ab] [Gbm] I miss the hungry _
[A] years.
[Eb] _ _ When the hunger [Dm]
disappears,
_ _ [B] _ _ _ you'll [C] miss _ the [E] hungry _ [Am] years.
[Dbm] _ [Gb] _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _