Tom: G major•
Verse 1
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My grandfather deserted
the Tsar's army
D
Em
An d came here at seventeen
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C
D
He had a small business
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C
in boys' apparel
Em
Oh, my grandfather came
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Bm
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G
here at 17
My parents grew up in the Bronx
Em
D
And my father became an orthodontist
C
D
They moved to Long Island
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Em
D
G
But my par ents grew up in the Bronx
C
They joined a country club,
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played golf and had a nice life
C
All their childhood friends
G
became doctors and lawyers and wives
D
Em
Then an accountant friend
who they'd known forever
C
Said he had a new connection
to this genius investor
Em
And that's how they got
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G
in with Bernie Madoff
Em
D
And the accountant lost all
When my father died,
D
my mother sort of fell apart
Em
D
She was lost without my dad
C
D
But her made -off account
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Em
She had a steady return
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G
in good times and bad
She had piles and piles of statements
D
She would copy all the numbers
Em
D
On the outside of the envelopes
C
D
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She began to lose her memory
C
Em
But she had a steady return
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G
in good times and bad
C
If the men of my family were alive
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psychological devastation
Em
To know they got taken,
that they failed in that way
C
That they lost all the money
they worked so hard to save
Em
D
My heart goes out to the men who are still
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Cm
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Cm
Bb
C
Cm
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alive
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Cm
I read it in the paper
and I called my brother
Ab
and he said, I'm reading the Times,
I know.
Eb
And an image came into my mind
Bb
of a gun that went puff with smoke.
all the money was gone,
Ab
all the money was gone
Eb
in a puff of smoke, in a puff of smoke.
Bb
D
G
Em
All the money was gone.
G
They sold the house in Long Island
and we drove my mother down
D
Em
D
To a nursing home in New Jersey
Em
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C
D
We didn't say where we were going
G
but I think she might have known
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Em
She held the keys to her house
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Em
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in her hand the whole way down
C
They joined a country club,
G
played golf, and had a nice life
C
All their childhood friends
G
became doctors and lawyers and wives
Em
Then an accountant friend
who they'd known forever
C
Said he had a new connection
to this genius investor
Em
D
G
My parents both grew up in the Bronx
Em
D
And my grandfather came here at seventeen
D
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