Misc Musicals – Amélie The Musical - Halfway (Guitar)

C        F        C
In my mother's schoolhouse

F                  C
I would sit at the kitchen table

     Dm                       C
And listen to her teach geometry

    F                 C
She taught me about distance

       F             C                  Dm
She taught a lesson about a boat that is sailing the sea

     Em                   F
Trying to get from point A to B

           Am         G         F
So the little boat's travelling at full sail

           Am       G          F
And it's trying to reach the shore

        Am         G          F
But whenever the boat gets halfway there

          Em             F
There is always halfway more

      Am
Take half of half

      Em
And half of that

     Am           D
And on and on and so

                Em   Am
In my mother's schoolhouse

          F         G      C
There is always halfway to go

         F       C    F
At the kitchen table

         C
I once folded a paper boat

      Dm                 C
And floated it down the tabletop

F                C
Halfway to my mother

   F                C
It sailed into her coffee cup

           Dm
Where she crumpled it up

C
Threw it away

F
And told me to stop

           Am         G        F
So the little boat's trying to get to her

         Am       G        F
But the table is deep and wide

       Am       G            F
The lesson I learned from my mother

        Em             F
Was to see the great divide

      Am
Take half of half

     Em
And half of that

     Am            D
And on and on and so

                C
At the kitchen table

          Em  F      G     Am
There was always halfway to go

       F            C
Little boat, big ocean

       F            C        F
I'm a girl with a copper spyglass

      Dm                       F        C
Who prays that today she will spot her shore

F                   C
All at once a lighthouse

F                       C
All at once through the copper spyglass

     Dm                 F           C
A light telling me to learn in on the oar

F
I start to row

     Am       G       F
But before I can get anywhere

     Am      G        F
From point A to point B

     Am     G       F
I am at the kitchen table

           Em           F
Where I'll always be at sea

     Am
Take half of half

    Em
And half of that

    Am             D
No matter where I row

                C
Little boat big ocean

                Em
Little boat big ocean

          F       G        Am
There is always halfway to go

   Am    F
To go