The Go-Betweens – Secondhand Furniture (Guitar)

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Tune your strings to A approx = 450 Hz. [Intro] C G C G C G C G [Verse 1]
  C                       G
Once upon a marriage in a corner of the world

C                 G
I knew happiness, I had a girl

Bb              Dm
The one day the world turned black

      G             D
I can feel you know you're on my back

      G             D
I can fell you know you're on my back

C               G
One afternoon I saw the truck

C                       G
Gone went you're apron, goodbye went luck

Bb                      Dm
How did it feel with my eyes against the world

   G                       D
It felt pretty much like a wooden world

   G                       D
It felt pretty much like a wooden world
[Chorus]
Bb         A       G
Take these tables, take these chairs

Bb          A        G
Left by the windows, left by the stairs

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture
[Verse 2]
   C                      G
So what did I do with the rest of my life

  C               G
I wandered around missing my wife

Bb                      Dm
How did it feel with my eyes against the world

   G                       D
It felt pretty much like a wooden world

   G                       D
It felt pretty much like a wooden world

      C                       G
Well, once upon a winter in another town

C                G
I walked around against what I found

Bb                       Dm
There in the window in a naked light

G                    D
I saw our bed in the window light

G                    D
I saw our bed in the window light
[Chorus]
Bb         A       G
Take these tables, take these chairs

Bb          A        G
Left by the windows, left by the stairs

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture
[Instrumental] C G C G C G C G C G C G [Bridge]
           C                    G
There were four chairs my mamma left me

          C                         G
There was a Persian carpet with its weave gone bare

          C             G                          C
There was - kitchen utensils sitting out getting rusty

              G
One bookshelf all painted blue

              C                                G
And there was something all the way from Kenya made out of Mahogany

            C               G
There was a - kitchen stove of the Kelvinator variety

      C                    G
There was four front steps and five back steps

C                G                  C                     G
 There was a linoleum floor with geometric arrangement of colors and lines

            C         G                               C                 G
There was a - two lampshades and a door that wouldn't open on the front door
[Chorus]
Bb         A       G
Take these tables, take these chairs

Bb          A        G
Left by the windows, left by the stairs

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture

Bb    A    G
Secondhand furniture
[Outro] C G C G
C    G  C    G
Oh-ooo! home sweet home

C     G             C    G
 Oh-ooo! home sweet home

C    G             C    G
Oh-ooo! home sweet home

C    G             C    G
Oh-ooo! home sweet home

C               G
Home sweet home

C     G             C    G    C    G
 Oh-ooo! home sweet home