Story Of A Life

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       G
I can see myself it's a golden sunrise
 Em
Young boy open up your eyes
        Am
It's supposed to be your day
     C
Now off you go horizon bound
     D
And you won't stop until you've found
      G
Your own kind of way
         G
And the wind will whip your tousled hair
    Em
The sun, the rain, the sweet despair,
 Am
Great tales of love and strife
        C
And somewhere on your path to glory
 D                              G
You will write your story of a life

     G
And all the towns that you walk through
    Em
And all the people that you talk to
 Am
Sing you their songs
      C
And there are times you change your stride
  D
There are times you can't decide
  G
Still you go on
               G
And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes
     Em
And share the secrets of the moon
    Am
So soon you find a wife
      C
And though she sees your dreams go poorly
  D                              G
Still she joins your story of a life
Em G

         G
So you settle down and the children come
         Em
And you find a place that you come from
        Am
Your wandering is done
     C
And all your dreams of open spaces
 D
You find in your children's faces
 G
One by one
     G
And all the trips you know you missed
    Em
And all the lips you never kissed
      Am
Cut through you like a knife
     C                                D
And now you see stretched out before thee
                         G
Just another story of a life

        D
So what do you do now?
                  Em
When she looks at you now?
                F
You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell
     G
You tell them to her now
             F
And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang
     G
You sing 'em to her now
               D
But it don't matter anyhow
            Em
'Cause she knows by now

           G
So every chance you take don't mean a thing
        Em
What variations can you bring
         Am
To this shop worn melody
          C
And the years roll by like a tollin' bell
         D
It's battered merchandise you sell
     G
Not well she can see
                   G
And though she's heard it all a thousand times
  Em
Couched in your attempted rhymes
        Am
She'll march to your drum and fife
           C
But the question that goes up before me
  D                           G
Where's my magic story of a life?

        G
Now sometimes words can serve me well
   Em
Sometimes words can go to hell
    Am
For all that they do
          C
And for every dream that took me high
         D
There's been a dream that's passed me by
   G
I know it's so true
           G
And I can see it clear out to the end
           Em
And I'll whisper to her now again
  Am
Because she shared my life
     C
For more than all the ghosts of glory
 D
She makes up the story
 Am              D
She's the only story
Am7 D   G
Of  my life

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