Misc Musicals – Fun Home - Telephone Wire (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
D Telephone wire A Run and run D Telephone wire A Sundown on the creek E Partly frozen, partly flowing E Must be windy, trees are bending E Junction 50 field needs mowing E Feels like the car is floating
[Chorus]
D Say something! A Asus2 A Talk to him! D Say something! A Asus2 A Anything! D A At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light D At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light Dsus2 Like, you could say F#m "So, how does it feel to know that you and I are both—"
[dialogue]
N.C.
"Hey"
N.C.
"Yeah?"
N.C.
"Where do you want to go?"
N.C.
"Oh, I don't know"
[Bridge]
G C "I know a bar that's kind of hidden away G B A seedy club for folks like… you know C Could be fun" G B "But Dad, I'm not twenty-one" A "Yeah, right"
[Verse]
D Telephone wire A Long black line D Telephone wire A Finely threaded sky E7 There's the pond where I went wading E7 There's a sign for Sugar Valley E7 On the mountain, light is fading E7 I go back to school tomorrow!
[Chorus]
D Say something! A Asus2 A Talk to him! D Say something! A Asus2 A Anything! D A At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light D At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light Dsus2 Doesn't matter what you say F#m Just make the fear in his eyes go away
[Bridge]
G "There was a boy in college C My first year there C Norris Jones G B He had black, wavy hair C Norris Jones G B7 Where is he now? G Fourteen years old C In Swanson's barn C It was cold G Lots of boys messed around, you know B C For them, it was a game they outgrew B7 C But I always knew" C "Dad, me too! G Since, like, five, I guess G I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants C I felt absurd in a dress Am I really tried to deny my feelings for girls G But I was like you, Dad me too"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Norris Jones…"
N.C.
"Dad?"
N.C.
"Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on? You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least…"
A
[Verse]
D Telephone wire A Stop! Too fast! D Telephone wire A Make this not the past D This car ride F This is where it has to happen! F There must be some other chances F There's a moment I'm forgetting F Where you tell me you see me
[Chorus]
Eb Say something! Bb Talk to me! Eb Say something! Bb Anything! Eb Bb At the light Eb Bb At the light F This can't be our last—
[Outro]
N.C. A "Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?" D A Telephone wire D A That was our last night