Chords
The Picture

Key: C

Introduction:

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C                      C/B                            Am  
There are pictures on the piano
F                                      G  
Pictures of the family
C  C/B            Am  
Mostly my kids but there's an old
F                         C  
Picture of you and me
Em                                                         F      F9  
You were five and I was six
Em      G  
In 1952
C         C/B                 Am  
That was forty years ago
G                                      C  
How could it be true?
C                                      C/B            Am  
We were sitting outside drawing
F                                                    G  
At a table meant for cards
C                                         C/B            Am  
And it must have been in autumn
F                                                                      G  
Falling leaves in the front yard
Em                                                         F              F9  
With a shoe box full of crayons
Em                                                 G  
Full of colors oh so bright
C                                            C/B            Am  
In a picture in a plastic frame
G                                                    C  
A snapshot black and white
C                                         C/B      Am  
You were looking at my paper
F                                      G  
Watching what I drew
C            C/B                                 Am  
It was natural: I was older
F                                                                 C  
Thirteen months more than you
Em                                    F            F9  
A brother and a sister
Em                                      G  
A little boy and girl
C                            C/B                 Am  
And whoever took that picture
G                                         C  
Captured our own world
C                      C/B            Am  
A brother needs a sister
F                                                    G  
To watch what he can do
C                         C/B         Am  
To protect and to torture
F                                                    C  
To boss around it's true
Em                                            F                      F9  
But a brother will defend her
Em                                                      G  
For a sister's love is pure
C                            C/B                      Am  
Because she thinks he's wonderful
G                                            C  
When he is not so sure
C                                    C/B                 Am  
In the picture there's a fender
F                         G  
Of our old Chevrolet
C            C/B                 Am  
Or Pontiac, our dad would know
F                                      G  
Surely he could say
Em                                              F                      F9  
But dad is dead and we grow old
Em                                                              G  
It's true that time flies by
C                              C/B                 Am  
And in forty years the world has changed
     G                                         C  
As well as you and I