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TRADE PLACES
WORDS & MUSIC: Earl P. Reinhalter
INTRO: D - Dsus4 - D - Dsus4
D - Fm/D - Em/D - C/D
D - Dsus4 - D - F - E - D#
D - Dsus4 - D
D Dsus4 D
I. would you like to trade places?
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
would you let me be you?
Dsus4 G
wish that I could be happy
Gsus4 G Gsus4 D Dsus4 D
as a 9-to-5 working man who
Dsus4 A Asus4 A
could be happy just getting
G Gsus4 G
from morning to night
D Dsus4 D
without getting restless,
Fm/D Em/D D Dsus4 D F - E - D# - D - Dsus4 - D
without much in - sight.
D Dsus4 D
II. if only I could be happy
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
with a woman who was plain,
Dsus4 G
I'd have married long ago
Gsus4 G Gsus4 D Dsus4 D
and been inclined to so re - main.
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but as I look for a woman,
G Gsus4 G
a lover or wife,
D Dsus4 D
I have that sick feeling
Fm/D Em/D D Dsus4 D F - E - D# - D - Dsus4 - D
I'll be lonely for life.
/// "doo-doo" vocalize like verse ///
D Dsus4 D
III. and now I'm starving
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
and sinking in debt.
Dsus4 G Gsus4
my music has taken
G Gsus4 D Dsus4 D
my very last cent.
Dsus4 A Asus4 A
and so my talent
G Gsus4 G
brings no fortune or fame.
D
it was born of pain
Dsus4 D Fm/D Em/D D Dsus4 D F - E - D# - D - Dsus4 - D
and only returns more of the same.
D Dsus4 D
IV. if I could trade my freedom
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
for a career plan,
Dsus4 G Gsus4
if I could forget
G Gsus4 D Dsus4 D
how "creative" I am,
Dsus4 A Asus4 A
if I could live without
G Gsus4 G
this internal combat:
D Dsus4 D
it would add years to my life...
Fm/D Em/D D F - E - D# - D
if you could still call it that.
© Copyright 1979 Earl P. Reinhalter. All Rights Reserved.
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