| Years |:G               |                  |                |          G  F# |bass
 Pushing through the market square,
 A  girl my age went   off her head
 
 
 |Em               |                  |                |                |
 so  many mothers sighing
 hit some tiny children (no C 2nd time)
 
 |A                |                  |                |          G  A  |
 News had just come over                            we had
 If the black had not pulled her off                           I
 
 |C                |                  |                |C     Bm     Am |
 five years               left   to   cry in
 think        she        would  have  killed them
 
 |G                |                  |                |          G   F#|
 News guy wept  and   told   us
 A soldier with a broken arm                     fixed his
 
 |Em               |                  |                |                |
 Earth               was really       dying
 stare      to the wheels  of  a      Cadillac
 
 |A                |                  |                |          G  A  |
 Cried   so    much his face was wet,                       then I
 A cop knelt   and kissed    the feet of a priest            and a
 
 |C                |                  |                |  C    Bm   Am  |
 knew                  he   was    not lying                   I  heard
 queer     threw up        at    the  sight of that
 
 |G                |                  |                |         Bm F#m |
 telephones        opera house,      favourite melodies       I  saw
 I think I saw you             in an  ice  cream  parlour
 
 |Em               |                  |                |                |
 boys,             toys electric      irons    and T.V's            My
 drinking milk shakes    cold and long
 
 |A                |                  |                |                |
 brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare.....      I had to
 Smiling   and    waving      and     looking    so  fine
 
 |C                |                  |                |                |
 I had to cram so many things to store evrything in there and all the fat
 Don't think you knew      you were in this song       |(next section)
 
 |Am               |                  |C               |                |
 skinny people                             and all the tall      short
 
 |Am               |                  |C               |  C   Bm   Am   |
 people                                    And all the no    bod   y
 
 |G                |                  |C              |       G    Am   |
 people                                   and all the some   bod   y
 
 |D7               |                  |                |                |
 people                I never thought I'd need         so   man   y
 
 |Am               |                  |C               |  C     Bm  Am :|
 people                                                 (back to start)
 
 
 (Continued from above)
 |C                |                  |                |   C   Bm   Am  |
 Don't think you knew      you were in this song         And  it   was
 
 |G                |                  |                |        G   F#m |
 cold       and it rained        so I felt  like   an  actor      and I
 
 |Em               |                  |                |                |
 thought      of   Ma           and I wanted to get    back there  your
 
 |A                |                  |                |                |
 face         your race           the  way  that  you  talk           I
 
 |C                |                  |                |                |
 kiss you, you're  beautiful,      I   want  you   to  walk    We  got
 
 |:G               |                  |                |                |
 Five              years               stuck  on   my  eyes
 
 |Em               |                  |                |                |
 Five              years                what  a   surprise,     We  got
 
 |A                |                  |                |                |
 Five             years          my   brain hurts a lot          We got
 
 |C                |                  |                |               :|
 Five             years              that's all we've got        We got
 |