Jets to Brazil – One Summer Last Fall (Ukulele)

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[Intro] G D# G D# G D# G D# G D# G D#
G
Kid I held you with these

Bm                C
Arms that felt so hard

G             Bm
You kept your chin up

    C         Am
And I held my guard

G
Made a prison bed

Bm
From a life I never led

G           Bm
Let me correct these

C                Am
Mistakes you delight in

C       Cm            G
God I hope I get it right

C           Cm         G
I've been practising tonight

G
Kid I hope it holds a

Bm               C
Fraction of it's feeling

   G        Bm
If you keep believing then

C            Am
I'll keep on being

G
A ghost in his prison bed

Bm
Short sheeted and shook dead

G            Bm
Looking at love he

C              Am
Still hasn't made yet

C        Cm               G
That I couldn't make to you

C      Cm           G
Baby I can barely move

    G             D
And kid you were wrong that

       Em         F   C
Wasn't me in that song

G             D
You write the lie

              Em
You'd like to be

          C
When your life feels like a book you wouldn't read
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G
Kid I've lived through

         Bm             C
Others I made myself so small

  G               Bm
I lived through a record

    C           Am
One summer last fall

G
The singer said something

Bm
I could only feel

G                Bm
I saw him this morning

C                 Am
He still looked real real

C            Cm       G
God I need him here tonight

C        Cm                 G
I just know he'd get this right

    G          D
And kid I'm a mess

             Em
If it looked good you're

       F        C
Seeing things I guess

G            D
I changed my mind so many

Em          C
Times I'm a strobe light

G            D#
Flickering freak

G                 D#
The baby of the week

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   D
I'm starting to see

C         Cm            G
Someone I could never be

    G              D
Hey kid what went wrong

       Em              F   C
We had it all now it's all gone

G         D
I blew my mind out now

          Em      C
It's your turn to find out

G             D#
What we all need

G             D#
What we all mean

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   C
I'm starting to see

G     D           Em   D
I'm starting to see

C         Cm              G
Someone I don't want to be