This Shirt Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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This shirt is old and faded, all the colors washed away _
I've had it now for more damn years than I could count [Dm] anyway
_ _ I can wear it beneath my [Bb] jacket with the [C] collar turned up [Dm] high
So old I should replace [F] it, but I'm [C] not about [F] to try _
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_ _ _ _ _ This shirt's got silver buttons and a [C] place upon the sleeve
[F] _ Where I used to set my heart up right there where anyone could [Dm] see
_ This shirt is the [C] one I wore [Bb] to every _ [C] boring high school [Dm] dance
_ Where the [C] boys ignored the girls [Bb] and we all pretended to [F] like the band _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ This [Bb] shirt was a pillow for my [F] head on a train [C] through Italy
_ [Am] _ This shirt was [Bb] a blanket beneath [F] the love we made in [C] _ _ Adelaide
[Am] _ This shirt was [Bb] lost for three [F] whole days in a [C] town near Buffalo
_ [Dm] Till I found [C] the locker key in [G] a downtown
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Trailways [F] bus depot _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ This shirt is the one I lent you and when [C] you gave it back
[F] It had a rip inside the sleeve where you rolled [Am] your [C] cigarettes
[Dm] It was the place I put my [F] heart [Bb] now look at where [C] you put a tear
_ [Dm] I forgave [C] you [F] thoughtlessness, [Bb] but not the boy [C] who put it there
_ [Am] _ This shirt [Bb] was the place your [F] cat decided to [C] give birth to five
[Am] _ And we stayed [Bb] up all [F] night watching and we [C] wept when the last one [Am] died
This [Bb] shirt is just [F] an old faded _ [C] piece of cotton
_ [Dm] _ _ shining like
[F] _ memories
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inside
[C] _ Those silver [F] _ buttons
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_ _ _ _ _ _ This shirt is a grand old relic with a grand [Am] old [F] history
_ I wear it now for Sunday chores
_ Cleaning house and [C] breaking _ [Dm] leaves.
I wear it beneath my [F] jacket [Bb] with the [C] collar turned up [Dm] high
So old [F] should [Bb] replace [F] it, [C] but I'm not about [F] to try _ _
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