Amanda Palmer – Dear Old House (Ukulele)

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C                       Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in

C                          Fsus2
I know that I'll leave you any day

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in

G                             Fsus2
can't you find a way to make em stay?

Fsus2
and all the girls I went to school with

walked downtown with all the cool kids

     C
I was staked out in your cellar

making friends with dead umbrella

         Fsus2
and every creak of every floorboard

                                    G
tells the story of the girl I stuck inside

and if they move away

                        Fsus2         Fsus
I'll have no place to … hide

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in

G                       Fsus2
I've never really been in love

C                           Fsus2
you took my heart when I was a child

               G                            Fsus2
noises wrapped around my little body like a winter glove

you're just a random set of objects in a town that's filled with sadness

       C
in the armpit of the world

you're chopped down trees and rotting soil

         Fsus2
and if I wanted to I'd keep you

I'd fill you up and heat you

         G
with the market how it is, Amanda

                                Fsus2    Fsus
well you know, the price of ... oil

B-maj             Em                  C                G
Goodbye stairs, and goodbye stars on painted walls at home

B-maj            Em               C               G
attic door, and banister, I'll miss you most of all

B-maj                 Em                 C                  G
you were supposed to keep me safe, this wasn't supposed to end

B-maj           Em            C        G        Fsus2
does it sound ridiculous, to call you my best friend?

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in

G                           Fsus2
I know I haven't visited that much

C                                         Fsus2
but, every lifeless hotel and apartment I walk into

     G                                         Fsus2
just reminds me of the doorknobs that I want to touch

I won't miss you, when they sell you to some evil yuppie couple

         C
with the child who'll put Miley Cyrus posters in my bedroom

Fsus2
I am a native of the north

I am a rockstar on the road I am now permanently located in each place I am known

       G
but it doesn't feel like anywhere

                          Fsus2          Fsus
when you can't go back... home

C                         Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in

G                               Fsus2
I know it isn't your fault this panned out,

C                                Fsus2
please don't take it personally, PS,

         G
Tell the evil yuppie couple

Fsus2                       C
When I'm rich, I'll buy you back.

--- Can also be played on the Ukulele Fsus: http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/ukulele/standard/Fsus/print.html