Trying To Answer Them Chords

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Trying To Answer Them by Lester J Allen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, Am and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			C G Am F  
C                          G           
So your falling out of a taxi 
                F                  C                  G             
Your minds a carousel, without no breaks to slow you down 
      C                          G 
And you've stranded me at some party 
                  F                    C                     G 
I'm hiding in a wine cupboard, trying hard not to make a sound 
Am                                               C 
Cause if the cops find me here they'll send me home 
Am                                             C 
So I got my ear up against the door like a telephone 
Am                                                            C                        
Listening to the Sargent talking to the kid out cold on the stairs 
Am                                                         C       G 
He says "why would you do it to yourself, yea why would you dare to 

F                                                         C 
It's cause once you got the world you've got to give it back 
F               G                 C 
And what could be harder than that 

       C                         G 
Well they say being our age is easy 
              F                                  C                      G 
Well I say they talk to much and you shouldn't judge what they don't know 
            C                              G 
And whilst hanging on to a third story window 
                        F                        C                      G 
Well I was trying to answer them whilst hearing words like "don't let go" 
       Am                                                         C      
And looking to the floor I see a couple trying to bring me to safety 
           Am                                            C 
And of course I had to comply after all I've been selfish lately 
         Am                                             C   
It's spinning like a record in my mind, isn't life so easy 
            Am                                                    C        G            
I've been thinking about that sentence and how it never seems to suit me 

       F                                                 C 
It's cause once you got the world you've got to give it back 
                F     G            C 
And what could be harder than that 

C                              G 
So lets all grow up and be sensible 
                      F              C            G 
We'll have life planners, and go for meals at midday 
       C                      G 
And we could have dealt are current lives 
                         F                    C                       G 
Instead of saying what "what a night" I would say I'm glad I can now behave 
      Am                                             C 
And you could show pictures of your eleven month old baby 
       Am                                                 C 
She's hanging out at home playing games with your little lady 
       Am                                            C 
She goes into to her room with a bottle for her every night 
       Am                                              C   G 
And she sits over the crib stringing words to some lullaby 

       F                                       C   
Like once I had the world but had to give it back 
        F                 G                  C 
But I don't think that I'll be regretting that  
        F                                          C 
Yeah once you've got the world you got to give it back 
      F             G              C 
And what could be harder than that 
    	

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100 BPM Andante