Chords
The Songs That We Sing

Key: D

Introduction:  Am   D72/F#  

difficulty
easy |||||
 Am 
        I saw somebody who
Reminded me of you
       F 
Before you got afraid
 C       Bb                             Am 
        I wish that you could've stayed that way
verse
 Am 
        I saw a little girl
I stopped and smiled at her
       F 
She screamed and ran away
   C               Bb                         Am 
              It happens to me more and more these days
Chorus
                       Dm                       Am 
And these songs that you sing
                   Dm           Am 
Do they mean anything
               Dm                       F                       G 
To the people you're singing them to
                         Am 
People like you
interlude
 Am  D72/F#2x 
verse
 Am 
        I saw a photograph
                                             F 
A woman in a bath of hundred dollar bills
 C                                           Bb                                 Am 
        If the cold doesn't kill her, money will
verse
 Am 
        I read a magazine
That said by seventeen
             F 
Your life was at an end
 C                                     Bb                           Am 
        I'm dead and I'm perfectly content
Chorus
                       Dm                       Am 
And these songs that you sing
                   Dm           Am 
Do they mean anything
               Dm                       F                       G 
To the people you're singing them to
                         Am 
People like you
muted interlude (see comment above)
                       Dm                       Am 
And these songs that you sing
                   Dm           Am 
Do they mean anything
               Dm                       F                       G 
To the people you're singing them to
                         Am 
Tonight they do
Enjoy!