Nina Simone – Stars (Ukulele)

D                       F#m
Stars, they come and go.

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They come fast, they come slow.

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They go like the last light of the sun,

           Em
All in a blaze.

                   A
And all you see is glory.

             D
But it gets lonely there,

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When there's no one there to share.

        Em
We can shake it away,

                 A
If you'll hear a story.

           D         A
People lust for fame,

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Like athletes in a game.

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We break our collarbones,

             Em7
And come up swinging.

               A7
Some of us are crowned,

                A
Some of us are downed

          Em            A7
Some are lost and never found.

                      D
But most have seen it all.

F#m
They live their Lives,

          D             Em7
In sad cafes and music halls

                    A
They always have a story

                       D
Some make it when they are young,

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Before the world has done its dirty job.

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And later on someone will say,

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"You've had your day,

                A
now you must make way."

                           D
But they'll never know the pain

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Of living with a name you never owned.

Em7              A7
The years of forgetting,

          A
What you know too well-

                       D
That you who gave the crown,

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Have been let down.

            Bm7     Em7
You try to make amends

        A7
Without defending

         D
Perhaps pretending

A
You never saw the eyes

                       B7
Of young men at twenty-five,

                Em7
Asked for autographs,

                           A
And you never could believe,

                           D
Some make it when they're old

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Perhaps they have a soul they're unafraid to bare.

                          A7
Perhaps there's nothing there.

A                                      D
But anyway that isn't what i meant to say

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since we all have stories

B7
I can't remember it anyways

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So I'll tell about the mood in the in United States today

       D
It Goes ...

D7                                        G    Em
But I continue anyway til I get it together

Em7
Some women have a body,

A7
Men will want to see

A
So they put it on display,

                        D
Some people play a fine guitar.

A                                    C
I could listen to them play all day.

B7
But anyway,

Em                      A
I'm trying to tell my story.

      D
Janis Ian told it very well,

Bm                               Em
Janis Joplin told it even better,

            Em7                 A
Billy Holiday even told it even better.

D
We always,

A
we always,

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we always have a story.

        Em
and the latest story that I know is the one that i'm supposed to go out with

        A7
and the latest story that I know is the one that i'm supposed to go out with