Five Years

G Em

Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing (sighing, sighing)

A C/G

News had just come over, we had five years left to crying (crying, crying)

G Em

News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying (dying, dying)

A C/G

Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying (lying, lying)

G

I heard telephones, opera house, my favorite melodies

Em

I saw boys toys electric irons and T.V.'s

A

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

C/G

I had to cram so many things to store, everything in there

Am C/G

And all the fat-skinny people,

Am C/G

and all the tall-short people,

G C/G

and all the nobody people,

D7

and all the somebody people

Am C/G

I never thought I'd need so many people

G Em

A girl my age went off her head, hit some -- tiny children

A C/G

If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think -- she -- might have killed them

G Em

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare -- to the wheels -- of a Cadillac

A

A cop knelt -- and kissed -- the feet of a priest,

C/G

And a queer threw up at the sight of that

G Em

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long

A C/G

Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song

G

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

Em

And I thought -- of Ma -- and I wanted to get back there

A

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

C/G

I kiss you! You're beautiful! I want you to walk!

G

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes!

Em

Five years, what a surprise!

A

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot!

C/G

Five years, that's all we've got!

^^ repeat last verse 3x ^^