Misc Musicals – Little Women - How I Am (Guitar)

    Dadd9  
She asks how I am

    Em11
And so: how am I?

   F#m7               Bm7
My days are the usual days

       Cadd9  
I wake up, I go out

          A7sus
Time goes by

   Gadd9                F#m7                      Bm11
My days are exactly the days I have lived since arriving here

   Gadd9              F#m7                       Bm11
In fact, how I am is amazed how this comforts me year by year

  Cadd9  
I work and I eat

                    A7sus
Life is muffins and jam

    Em7               F#m7
The house is nice and quiet now

Asus/G     A7sus                D -  -  - A -
                  That is how I am

     D
Five years in these rooms

A          D
   Reading Hegel and Kant

A     F#m7               Bm7
   My mind is devoted to thoughts

       Cadd9  
Of the meaning of life

                  A7sus
What more could I want?

   Gadd9              F#m7                Bm11
So why is it lately I find I'm uneasy all through the night?

    Gadd9                F#m7                   Bm11
And why even now does my skin feel explosive as dynamite?

    C
Why does my heart pound

                 Asus
Like a battering ram?

    Em7            F#m7
How can she ask me how I am?

Asus/G    A7sus              B - - - F# -
                 How I am is fine!

B                         Eadd9      B/D#     F#       B
Dear Miss March, there is nothing dramatic or new to report

F#sus     F#  Badd9  
This will be  short

B                     Eadd9      B/D#  F#7sus
Morning and evening I live in my usual way

       E         B/D#          F#          B
On the day you return you will see for yourself!

C                            Fadd9    C/E
Tell me, Miss March, are you happy so far

         Dm            C/E         F6        C/G
From the clang and the beat of our turbulent street?

      F       C/E          G/D         C - Em/B - Am - C/G
Quite often I think of our days in New York

          FMaj7            C/E         G7sus         Abadd9   - Ab - AbMaj7 - F5/Eb -
Though of course since you went I have been quite content

Ab - Eb - Ab
Ach!    I wake up in the morning and all that I hear

       Ab/Gb      Gb  -  Ab/Gb - Gb
Is the absence of sound

Ab - Eb - Ab
Yes!   My peace is disturbed but the ruckus is me

      Ab/Gb         Gb  -  Ab/Gb - Gb
As my thoughts run aground

  B
I wanted a life by myself in these rooms

    A
But now all around me another life looms

    G#m                   F#                      Eadd9   - E - EMaj7 - E
Who asked her to come and go and to leave me like that?

    C#m7                  D#m7
And now she expects me to send her a note?

     C#m7                          D#m7
With words, if I spoke, that would stick in my throat!

    G
Who asked her to change how I live,

G/F#       Em7
     How I think,

      Gm6         Edim/A
How I am? - - - - -

    Dadd9  
She asks how I am

    Em11
How can I reply?

  F#m7                   Bm7
I go through my daily routine

       Cadd9  
I give lessons, I wait

          A7sus
Time goes by

    Gadd9                  F#m7                  Bm11
Yet lately I find there is pleasure in humming a silly tune

    Gadd9                 F#m7                     Bm11
And some days I go to the park and I sit there all afternoon

     C
Some evenings I swear

                  A7sus
I can hear a door slam

    Em7              F#m7
The house is far too quiet now

Asus/G   A7sus               D - - - A/D - Dadd9  
               That is how I am