Shooting Star

album: Vereties and Balderdash

song: Shooting Star

artist: Harry Chapin

transcribed: Ken Reynolds

Here is an oldie and a goodie. Enjoy.

Shooting Star

Harry Chapin (klr)

He was crazy, of course

>From the [C] first she must have known it

But [D] still she went on [Bm] with him

And she [G] never once had [Em] shown it

And she took him off the street

And she [C] dried his tears of grieving

She [D] listened to his [Bm] visions

She be [G] lieved in his be [Em] lieving

He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little

He was a shooting star

She was softer and more slowly

He [A] could not make things possible

But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]

He was dancing to some music

No one [C] else had ever heard

He'd [D] speak in unknown [Bm] languages

And she would [G] translate every [Em] word

And when the world was laughing

At his [C] castles in the sky

She'd [D] hold him in her [Bm] body

Until he [G] once again could [Em] fly

He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little

He was a shooting star

She was softer and more slowly

He [A] could not make things possible

But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]

She [G] gave him a daughter and she [D] gave him a son

She was a [Bm] mother and a wife

And a [Em] lover when the day was done

He was to [G] far gone for giving love

What he [D] offered in its stead

Was the [Bm] knowledge she was the only thing

That [Em] was not in his [G] head [D] - [Em]

He took off east one morning

Towards the [C] rising sun's red glow

She [D] knew he was going [Bm] nowhere

But of [G] course she let him [Em] go

And as she stood and watched him dwindle

Much too [C] empty to be sad

He [D] reappeared be [Bm] side her

Saying "You're [G] all I've ever [Em] had"

He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little

He was a shooting star

She was softer and more slowly

He [A] could not make things possible

But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]

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