Stan Rogers – Forty-Five Years (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

(G) = continue chord from previous section [Intro] G C G D Em C G [Verse 1]
          G
Where the earth shows its bones of wind-broken stone

         D
And the sea and the sky are one

     Am                      C
I'm caught out of time, my blood sings with wine

         D                     D C
And I'm running naked in the sun

         G
There's God in the trees, I'm weak in the knees

         D
And the sky is a painful blue

     Am                       C          D        G
I'd like to look around, but Honey, all I see is you
[Interlude] (G) C G D [Verse 2]
         G
Now the summer city lights will soften the night

            D
'Til you'd think that the air is clear

         Am                          C
And I'm sitting with friends, where forty-five cents

      D                      D C
Will buy another glass of beer

          G
He's got something to say, but I'm so far away

        D
That I don't know who I'm talking to

                 Am                      C          D        G
'Cause you just walked in the door, and Honey, all I see is you
[Chorus]
       C                                           G
And I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before

                C                      G
You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life

         Am                        D
Ah, but Honey, what the hell's it for?

       C
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find

   G              C        G
A way to let you know somehow

        Am                            D                  G
That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now
(G) C G D Em C G [Verse 3]
     G
So alone in the lights on stage every night

           D
I've been reaching out to find a friend

      Am                  C
Who knows all the words, sings so she's heard

      D                          D C
And knows how all the stories end

      G
Maybe after the show she'll ask me to go

        D
Home with her for a drink or two

         Am                         C          D        G
Now her smile lights her eyes, but Honey, all I see is you
[Chorus]
       C                                           G
And I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before

                C                      G
You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life

         Am                        D
Ah, but Honey, what the hell's it for?

       C
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find

   G
A way to let you know somehow

        Am                            D                  G
That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now

   C                                           G
I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before

                C                      G
You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life

          Am                       D
Ah, but Honey, what the hell's it for?

       C
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find

   G
A way to let you know somehow

        Am                            D               G
That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now
[Outro] (G) C G D
        Am                            D                  G
Yes, I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now