Chords
If I Could Just Get It On Paper

Key: F

Introduction:

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If I could just get it on paper
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The things that have happened tonight
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But that seems to me to be the big key
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I'm havin' too good a time to ever turn Out the lights.

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Recalling what made it a ball
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If I could just get it on paper
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I might make some sense of it all
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If I could tell half of the stories
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The funny way most things begin
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Figure ways to disguse all the half truths and lies
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Find the heart of my song with the point of a pen
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Simple words can become clever phrases
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And chapters could turn into books
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Yes if I could just get it on paper
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But it's harder than it ever looks.
INSTRUMENTAL
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All alone in the edge of the water
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Hidin' out by the Sea of Cortez
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With my sketch pads and Flairs, tapes and battery spares
                     G                                           C 
It's just no comprehendo to what everyone says
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Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner
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Time away seems to work for the kid
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Life and ink they run out at the same time
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Or so said my old friend the squid
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Yes if I could just get it on paper tonight
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I could tell you what I think I did.