Afternoons And Coffeespoons

> Please excuse errors in the lyrics. I have this on second-generation

> cassette, so unfortunately I have to guess what is being sung.

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> AFTERNOONS AND COFFEESPOONS

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> (capo on third fret)

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> Intro: D G D G Asus4 A

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> D A D G G A

> What is it that makes me just a little bit queasy

> D A D G G A

> There's a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy

> F Bb C

> I've had my lungs checked out with X-rays

> F Bb C Dm Bbsus2**

> I've smelled the hospital hallways

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> (**Sorry. Not really sure if this is what you call this chord. Basically

> play a Bb, but play the C note on the second string, not the D note.)

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> SHORT CHORUS:

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> D G D A

> Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline

> D G D A G A

> Someday I'll wear pajamas in the daytime

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> D A D G G A

> Times when the day seems like a play by Sartre

> D A D G G A

> When it seems a book burnings in perfect order

> F Bb C

> I gave the doctor my description

> F Bb C Dm Bbsus2

> I've tried to stick to my prescription

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> LONG CHORUS:

> D G D A

> Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline

> D G D A

> Someday I'll wear pajamas in the daytime

> G D

> Oh, oh, oh, oh (or something to that effect)

> A D G

> Afternoons will be measured out

> Bm G

> Measured out and measured with

> A D G G A

> Coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot

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> (The remaining verse and chorus repeat the same chord progression)

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> Maybe if I could do a play-by-playback

> I could change the test results that I would get back

> I've watched a summer evening pass by

> I've heard the rattle in my bronchi

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> REPEAT LONG CHORUS

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> Hope you can follow this.

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> Ben McTernan

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