Tom: C major•
Intro 1
C
Csus4
G
C
F
C
Csus4
C
Verse 1
G
C
F
C
he really had a way
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He did his homework on the school bus
G
C
F
And he always got an A
C
And the girls liked Johnny
G
C
F
maybe Elton John
F
G
He couldn't keep his red
C
F
G
Am
suspenders on
(chorus)
C
Am
he gone away
G
Oh where's Johnny will he
be back someday
C
Verse 2
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C
He had a room full of trophies
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From the track meets and the
G
C
F
tennis games he'd win
C
He was a full-blown whiz whiz kid
F
G
C
F
Bound to be a Renaissance man
C
Then he went on off to college
F
Got his head stuck in a dif
G
C
F
ferent state of mind
C
When they asked him was it alcohol?
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G
C
He told them it was nothing of the kind
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G
C
Just life … just life,
Interlude 1
mom
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G
Am
G
C
Am
G
C
Csus4
C
Csus4
C
Csus4
C
F
Verse 3
alright he just
F
They'd have paid it no mind
C
had he not been so bright
Am
He opened up his eyes and he
Em
snapped out of the groove
F
He saw both sides of everything
move
Verse 4
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G
Now he reads a lot of poetry
C
F
and plays
C
He'll sit out in the backyard
F
G
C
F
And not say a word to anyone for days
F
G
They no longer even bother
C
F
getting through
C
He's thirty-odd years years old
F
G
They must have figured there's just so much
Interlude 2
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Am
G
C
Am
G
C
G
C
Verse 5
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His mother keeps his pictures
In the scrapbook in the
C
She polishes the trophies
That he won back when they thought
C
Back when the girls liked Johnny
G
C
F
G
maybe Elton John
C
She wonders where's her little boy
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G
With the braces and the red
C
F
G
C
F
suspenders gone
G
Outro 1
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Gsus4
G
C
Csus4
C
F
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Csus4
C
Csus4
C
F
C
F
C
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C
F
C
C
F
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