The Boy with the Crooked Nose
September-November 2019, Gibson Chase-Pinkney

(Verse 1)
The boy with the crooked nose...
/ C F G - / C C-B Am7* C-B C - / F E7 Ame7C / F G C -/

(Verse 2)
After scarcely a mile, the boy had to  smile...
/ F G C Am / F G AmEAm / F G Am C / F E7 C F / F G AmE7C /

(Verse 3)
After he’d heard enough shaming of birds,...
/ F G Am C / C Em Ame7Am / Dm E7 Am C / Dm Am E7 E /

(Verse 4)
With an uneven grin, the man started to spin...
/ E F# C Em / Em F# C Em / Am B7 F Am / Am B7 F Am / Dm E Bb Dm / Dm F Cam D /

(Verse 5)
With patience explaining each pertinent fact,...
/ D - F D / D D FC D / D F CAm D / G C A7 D /

(Verse 6)
They’d walk past old forums that now were just fields...
/ D - GA D / D C C D / CAm D CAm D / G C A D /

(Verse 7)
When the boy was much younger, he’d often maintain...
/ F C G D / D G C D / F D F D / F C G D / FC D FC D / F C G D /

(Verse 8)
Since then the boy listened, more than he asked...
/ F#Bm G C F#/ C->Am->C F# / G F# C Em / C Em C F# / C F# C Em / C Am F G /

(Verse 9)
We know of what happened, to the crooked-nosed boy...
/ F G Ce7Am / F G Ame7Am / F G Am->C / Dm E7 FG C /

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