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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4Five Years |:G | | | G F# |bass Pushing through the market square, A girl my age went off her head |Em | | | | so many mothers sighing hit some tiny children (no C 2nd time) |A | | | G A | News had just come over we had If the black had not pulled her off I |C | | |C Bm Am | five years left to cry in think she would have killed them |G | | | G F#| News guy wept and told us A soldier with a broken arm fixed his |Em | | | | Earth was really dying stare to the wheels of a Cadillac |A | | | G A | Cried so much his face was wet, then I A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a |C | | | C Bm Am | knew he was not lying I heard queer threw up at the sight of that |G | | | Bm F#m | telephones opera house, favourite melodies I saw I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour |Em | | | | boys, toys electric irons and T.V's My drinking milk shakes cold and long |A | | | | brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare..... I had to Smiling and waving and looking so fine |C | | | | I had to cram so many things to store evrything in there and all the fat Don't think you knew you were in this song |(next section) |Am | |C | | skinny people and all the tall short |Am | |C | C Bm Am | people And all the no bod y |G | |C | G Am | people and all the some bod y |D7 | | | | people I never thought I'd need so man y |Am | |C | C Bm Am :| people (back to start) (Continued from above) |C | | | C Bm Am | Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was |G | | | G F#m | cold and it rained so I felt like an actor and I |Em | | | | thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there your |A | | | | face your race the way that you talk I |C | | | | kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk We got |:G | | | | Five years stuck on my eyes |Em | | | | Five years what a surprise, We got |A | | | | Five years my brain hurts a lot We got |C | | | :| Five years that's all we've got We got