Misc Musicals – Fun Home - Telephone Wire (Guitar)

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[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