Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: HALFWAY TO HEAVEN (Harry Chapin)
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GUEST,Lambert the old
Date: 30 Aug 10 - 10:41 PM
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN
Words and Music by Harry Chapin
C#m - B - Amaj7 - C#m
C#m B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
Amaj7 C#m
But still your life runs down
B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
Amaj7 C#m
But still your life runs down
E - F#m - G#m - A ( 2x's )
E F#m G#m A
I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest Hills
B C#m D C#m B
It's half past eleven, I've got some time to kill
E F#m G#m A
I missed bus connection, my train got in too late
B C#m D C#m A
And I'm forced into reflection by this half-hour wait
E F#m G#m A
Now I have been a straight man and I played it by the rules
B C#m D C#m B
I've been a good man, a good husband, a good old fashioned fool
E F#m G#m A
I have a fine wife and two children just like everybody's got
B C#m D C#m A
But after fifteen years of marriage, the fires don't burn too hot
A E/B
Ah, someone played a trick on me
G#7/B# C#m
They set me up so perfectly
A E/B
The gave me their morality
G#7/B# C#m
And then changed the rules they set for me
A E/B
Someone must be laughing now
G#7/B# C#m
Although it don't seem funny somehow
A E/B
How the world's accepting now
G#7/B# C#m F#7
What they once would not allow back in my younger days.
B7 E
The world has changed, in so many ways.
E F#m7
My mother once said to me, so many years ago now
G#m7 Amaj7
"Don't you touch those bad girls."
G#m7 Amaj7
So I never had girls
G#m7 Amaj7 D
Until I had my Mary when we married
G#m7 Amaj7
My Mary then had my two sons
G#m7 Amaj7
My life as a lover was already done
G#m7 Amaj7 D A
It was over before it had really begun
A E/B
Ah, someone played a trick on me
G#7/B# C#m
Just sent this little girl to me
A E/B
She is my new secretary
G#7/B# C#m
And she's something to see
F#7
Yes, she's a nice girl
B7
But it's a young world
E Amaj7
And she lives her life so free
E Amaj7
And she sure gets through to me
E - Amaj7 - G - B
E F#m7
She brings her pad into my office
G#m7 Amaj7
She wears a sweater and a skirt
B C#m
Somewhere deep inside of me
D C#m B
Something starts to hurt
E F#m7
She's wearing nothing underneath
G#m7 Amaj7
I can see what there's to see
B C#m
She smiles and says, "You wanted me?"
D C#m A
I'd have to agree
A E/B
You know how much I want her
G#7/B# C#m
And I know that I could have her
A E G#7 C#m
I know I could, I know she would
F#7 B7
Make love to me, so wonderfully
C#m
God damn!
F#7 B C#m
I'm one crazy mixed up mixture of a man
E Amaj7
In my head all my life
E Amaj7
I've been a sinner
E Amaj7
And in my bed with just my wife
E Amaj7
I'm still a beginner
E Amaj7
But tomorrow night
E F#m7
I'm taking that little girl
C#m B - A - C#m
Out to dinner!
C#m B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
Amaj7 C#m
But still your life runs down
B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
Amaj7 C#m
But still your life runs down
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