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Version 1
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[Chords]
A 577655
A/E 077655
A6 5x465x
A7 07768x
Amaj7 5x665x
B7 x24242
B7#5 7x788x
Bdim 7x676x
Bm7 7x777x
C#7 x4342x
D x57775
E 076454
E6 07665x
E7 07675x
E7sus 7x775x
E9 076777
Edim 3x232x
Em7 079787
Em7/B 7x575x
F#m/A X04222
Gdim X7868X
[Intro]
A/E E9 A/E E6 B7 B7#5 E9
[Verse]
A Amaj7 A6 A
The things I used to like, I don't like any more,
A Amaj7 A6 A
I want a lot of other things I've never had before,
D E9 A/E Bm7 E7 A6
It's just like my mama says, I sit around and mourn
D E9 A/E Bm7 E7 A6 E7
Pretending that I am so wonderful and knowing I'm adored
[Chorus]
A6 Amaj7 A Amaj7
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm,
A6 Amaj7 Em7 A7
I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string,
D Bdim A6 A/E
I'd say that I had spring fe ver,
Bm7 Bdim Amaj7
But I know it isn't spring.
[Chorus]
A6 Amaj7 A Amaj7
I'm as starry eyed and gravely discontented,
A6 Amaj7 A Em7 A7
Like a nightingale without a song to sing.
D Bdim A6 A/E
Oh, why should I have spring fe ver,
A/E Bm7 E7 Amaj7
When it isn't even spring?
[Bridge]
Bm7 Em7 Em7/B
I keep wishing I were somewhere else,
Em7 Gdim A7 D
Walking down a strange new street,
D Bdim C#7
Hearing words I have never never heard,
F#m/A B7 E E7
From a man I've yet to meet.
[Chorus]
E7 A6 Amaj7 A Amaj7
I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydreams,
A Amaj7 Em7 A7
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing,
D Bdim A6 A/E
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud,
A/E Bm7 E7 E9 C#7
Or a robin or a bluebird on the wing,
[Outro]
Edim B7 E9
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way,
A7 B7
That it might as well be spring,
A/E E7sus E7
It might as well be,
A/E E7sus E7
might as well be,
A/E E7sus E7 A
It might as well be spring.