F#
Mother, once I awoke as an old man,
F#
my name was Stanley Forbes,
F#
and I threw tin cans
F#
at everyone who passed my porch.
F#
I don't know why I did,
F#
but I didn't throw them at the kids so
F#
I was a good guy!


[Chorus 1]
                   B
I remember yellin' hi, Too loo rye
          F#
It's the day before I die
   B
So why, Too loo rye
      F#
Cause everybody is walking by?
    B
Oh hi, Too loo rye
          F#
It's the day before I die
       Bm
And I wanna sigh and cry
             F#
Alongside my brothers


[Verse 2]
F#
Mother, once I awoke as a squirrel
and I jumped from tree to tree to tree to tree,
it was me at the acme of my career,
F#
I saved all I caught that year,
which is a lot of acorns let me tell you.
I was very resourceful


[Chorus 2]
       B
and I cried, Too loo rye
        F#
This is how it feels to fly so high
    B
So high, Too loo rye
            F#
This ain't nothing cash could buy,
   B
oh hi, Too loo yre
   F#
Tomorrow, I could die
        Bm                               F#
So I'm gonna climb the pines and have myself a time


[Verse 3]
F#
Mother, I dreamt I died last night.
See I was a lightbulb, left on a little too long
and I burned till I was dead
with a hundred good ideas in my head
F#
but I forgot 'em all
and they tried to throw me away, But hey,
when they grabbed ahold of me
they all would burn their hands and see
F#
that I was still quite hot with thought
and so a little thought they got that
they should keep me as a kind of warmth
you can't get from a stove or hearth.
F#
So I sought and thought and fraught and fought
but then cooled down and said


[Chorus 3]
   B
Oh hi, Too loo rye
    F#
To think I had a light inside when
   B
I try, Too loo rye
    F#
To remember what I wanted to find
     B
so, sigh, Too loo rye
    F#
I thought that I had died
       Bm
But I think tonight I've got it right,
     F#
I'm Stanley and the squirrel the invisible light,
       B
I'm a lover liar, humble fire,
       F#
I'm a little spider and a chicken on the wire
B
climbin' tryin', sighin' cryin'
F#
laughin' highfivin' slowly dyin'


[Outro]
       B                  F#
 But I swear now that's alright,
       B                  F#
yeah I swear now that's alright,
       B                  F#
      mother,       I'm alright