Tonart: C major•
Intro 1
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Cmaj7
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Verse 1
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I learned the truth at seven teen
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That love was meant for beauty queens
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And high school girls
with clear skinned smiles
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Who married young and then retired
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The valentines I never knew
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Dm7
The Fri day nights charades of youth
G7
Were spent on one more beautiful
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At seventeen I learned the truth
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Chorus 1
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And those of us with ravaged faces
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G7
Lacking in the social graces
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Fm7
Desperately remained at home
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Fm7
Inventing lovers on the phone
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G7
Who called to say "Come dance with me"
Cm7
Fm7
And murmured vague obscenities
Dm7
It isn't all it seems
Verse 2
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A brown eyed girl in hand-me- downs
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Whose name I never could pronounce
G7
Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve
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They only get what they deserve"
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And the rich relationed hometown queen
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Mar ries into what she needs
G7
With a guarantee of company
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And ha ven for the elder ly
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Chorus 2
Eb6
Remem ber those who win the game
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G7
Lose the love they sought to gain
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Fm7
In debentures of quality
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Fm7
And dubious integrity
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G7
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
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Fm7
In dull surprise when payment due
Dm7
Exceeds accounts received
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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To those of us who knew the pain
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Of va lentines that never came
G7
And those whose names were never called
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C6
for basket ball
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It was long ago and far away
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The world was younger than today
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When dreams were all they gave for free
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To ugly duckling girls like
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me
Chorus 3
Eb6
We all play the game, and when we dare
Dm7
G7
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Cm7
Fm7
Inventing lovers on the phone
Cm7
Fm7
Repenting other lives unknown
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G7
They call and say, "Come dance with me"
Cm7
Fm7
And murmur vague obscenities
Dm7
At ugly girls like me
Outro 1
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Cadd9
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Cmaj7
C6
Dm9
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DmMaj7
Dm7
G7
Eb6
Cm7
Fm7
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