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[Verse 1]
A                        E
  When I turned 16 I was furious and restless
      D                          A               E
Got a Chelsea girl haircut and a plane ticket to Paris
A                                     E
  I stayed there with Pansy, he had a studio in the seventh
         D                            A                 E
Lost his lover to a sickness, I slept beside him in his bed
A                                  E
  That's when I met Nancy, she was smoking on a gypsy
          D                                                A    E 
She had a ring in her nose and her eyes were changing like moodstones

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She said:     "Open up late bloomer,    it will make you smile"
F#m                     Bm       C#m              Bm      (Fill 1)
   "I can see that fire burning,    in you little child."


[Verse 2]
A                                    E
  Nancy came from Boston, she got in trouble very often
          D                                A              E
Cause her parents had forgotten her, she escaped over the pond
A                                       E
  She was searching for the writer of a song that made her shiver
             D                    A          E
She listened over and over on her Walkman cassette

              F#m                   Bm       C#m             Bm
And she said:    "Come with me late bloomer,    for a little while"
F#m                       Bm       C#m              Bm     (Fill 1)
   "I wanna see that fire burning,    in you little child."


Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
F#m
woooouuuu

Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
F#m
woooouuuu


[Verse 3]
A                               E
  How could I resist her, I had longed for a big sister
      D                         A          E
And I wanted to kiss her, but I hadn't the nerve
A                             E
  We found the writer, he was just some kid from Boston
      D                        A            E
I was jealous as I watched him   talking to her
A                                     E
  But man was I astonished, he didn't look like no Adonis
       D                          A        E
But as Nancy had promised, he was heavy as lead

            F#m                   Bm      C#m             Bm
And he said:   "Come with us late bloomer,   for a little while"
F#m                         Bm      C#m              Bm (Fill 1)
   "We wanna feel that fire burning,   in you little child."


[Verse 4]
A                        E
  Give me my candor, but I just had to have her
           D                  A              E
And at the time I didn't mind   sharing with him
A                             E
  We rode in silence, all the way back to the seventh
      D                          A       E
And I promised I'd write her but I never did

             F#m                 Bm      C#m             Bm
And she said:   "Au revoir, late bloomer,   for a little while"
F#m                         Bm      C#m              Bm (Fill 1)
   "You gotta keep the fire burning,   in you little child."


Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
F#m
woooouuuu
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
Bm           E
  Ahaaa aha,  oh ohohoho
F#m
woooouuuu