( D G D G B D )G 0 0 5 4 0 0Gmaj7 0 0 4 4 0 0G6 0 0 2 0 0 0 G open 0 0 0 0 0 0D7 0 2 0 2 1 0G 5 5 5 5 5 5C 2 2 2 2 2 2 [Intro] G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G (x2) G [Verse 1]G Gmaj7 G6 G Down by the river junior year walking with my girlD7 G and we came upon a placeG Gmaj7 G6 G There in the tall grass, where a couple had been making loveC D7 and left the mark of their embraceC Em I said to her, "Looks like they had some fun"A D7 She said to me "Let's do the same"G Gmaj7 G6 G And still I taste her kisses and her freckles in the sunD7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G when I play the poet game. [Verse 2]G Gmaj7 G6 G A young man down in the hill country in the year of '22D7 G went to meet his future bride.G Gmaj7 G6 G She lived in a rough old shack that poverty blew throughC D7 And she invited him inside.C Em She'd been cooking, ashamed and feeling sad,A D7 she could only offer him bread and her name.G Gmaj7 G6 G Grandpa said that was the best gift a fella ever hadD7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G and he taught me the poet game.[Verse 3]G Gmaj7 G6 G I had a friend who drank too much and played too much guitarD7 G Oh and we sure got along.G Gmaj7 G6 G Reel-to-reels rolled across the country near and farC D7 with letters, poems, and songsC Em but these days he don't talk to me and he won't tell me why.A D7 I miss him every time I say his name.G Gmaj7 G6 G I don't know what he's doing or why our friendship diedD7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G while we play the poet game. [Verse 4]G Gmaj7 G6 G The fall rain was pounding down on an old New Hampshire millD7 G and the river wild and high.G Gmaj7 G6 G I was talking to her while leaves blew down like a sudden chill.C D7 And there was wildness in her eyes.C Em We made love like we'd been waiting all our lives for thisA D7 Strangers know no shame.G Gmaj7 G6 G But she had to leave at dawn and with a sticky farewell kissD7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G left me to play the poet game. [Verse 5]G Gmaj7 G6 G I watched my country turn into a coast-to-coast strip mallD7 G and I cried out in a song.G Gmaj7 G6 G If we could do all that in 30 years, then please tell me whoaC D7 Why does good change take so long?C Em Why does the color of your skin or who you choose to loveA D7 still lead to such anger and pain?G Gmaj7 G6 G And why do I think it's any help for me to still dream ofD7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G playing the poet game? [Verse 6]G Gmaj7 G6 G Sirens wail above the fields, another soul gone downD7 G another sun about to rise.G Gmaj7 G6 G I've lost track of my mistakes like birds that fly aroundC D7 and darken half my skies.C Em To all of those I've hurt, Oh I pray you will forgive me.A D7 I to you will freely do the same.G Gmaj7 G6 G So many things I didn't see, with my eyes turned inside,D7 G G Gmaj7 G6 G D7 G playing the poet game. [Verse 7]G Gmaj7 G6 G I walk out at night to take a leak underneath the stars.D7 G Oh yeah that's the life for me.G Gmaj7 G6 G There's Orion and the Pleiades and I guess that must be Mars.C D7 All as clear as we long to be.C Em I've sung what I was given, some was bad and some was good.A D7 I never did know from where it cameG Gmaj7 G6 G and if I had it all to do again, I am not sure I wouldD7 G play the poet game.
The Poet Game
Greg Brown
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