G Pushing through the market square,
Em so many mothers sighing
A News had just come over,
we had C five years left to cry in

G News guy wept and told us,
Em Earth was really dying
A Cried so much his face was wet,
then I C knew he was not lying

I heard G telephones, opera house, favorite melodies G D/F#
I saw Em boys, toys, electric irons and TV’s
My A brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to C cram so many things to store everything in there

And all the fat-skinny Am people,
C and all the tall-short Am people
C And all the nobody G people,
C and all the somebody D people
I never thought I’d need so many Am people C C Em/B Am

G A girl my age went off her head
Em hit some tiny children
A If the black hadn’t a pulled her off,
I C think she would have killed them C Em/B Am

G A soldier with a broken arm, G
Em fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,
and a C queer threw up at the sight of that C Em/B Am

G I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor,
Em drinking milk shakes cold and long
A Smiling and waving and looking so fine,
C Don’t think you knew you were in this song C Em/B Am

G And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor D/F#
And I Em thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your A face, your race, the way that you talk
I C kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk

We got G five years, stuck on my eyes
Em Five years, what a surprise
We got A five years, my brain hurts a lot
C Five years, that’s all we got

We got G five years, stuck on my eyes
Em Five years, what a surprise
We got A five years, my brain hurts a lot
C Five years, that’s all we got …