Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean Chords by Paul Simon

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[C] _ Once upon a time there was an ocean, but now it's [G] a mountain range. _
Something _ unstoppable set into motion.
_ Nothing is different, but _ everything's changed. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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It's a dead-end job, and you get tired of sitting there.
It's like a nicotine habit, you're always thinking about quitting.
And I think about quitting every day of the week.
When I look out my window, it's brown and it's blue.
_ Out of here?
How am I going to get out of here?
I'm thinking out of here, when am I going to get out of here? _
And when will I cash [F] in my [G] lottery ticket and bury [C] my [G] past?
With my [G] burdens in strife, I want to shake every limb in the [C] Garden of Eden.
[G] _ And make [C] every [G] lover the love of my life.
I [C] figure that once upon a time there was an ocean, _ but now _ _ [G] it's a mountain range.
_ Something unstoppable [Em] set into motion.
_ Nothing [G] is different, but everything's changed. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Found a room in the heart of the city down by the bridge.
_ Hot plate and TV and beer in the fridge.
But I'm easy, I'm open, that's my gift.
I can't draw with the traffic, I can't drift with the drip.
Home again?
No, never gone home again.
Think about home again, and never think about home.
But then [C] comes a letter from home. _ _
_ The handwriting's fragile [G] and strange.
_ _ Something unstoppable set into motion.
[C] Nothing is [G] different, but everything's changed. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ The light through the stained glass was _ cobalt and red.
_ And the frayed cuffs and collars were mended by halos of golden thread.
The choir [C] sang once upon a time there was an ocean.
_ And [Am] all the old hymns and family [G] names came fluttering down as leaves of the ocean.
As nothing is different, but everything's changed. _ _
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