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	G
	Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

	D	G	D	G
Or	maybe I'm a	dog who's	lost its	bite

	D	G	C	F
I don't ex	pect to	be	treated like a fool no	more

	C	G	D	D
	I don't ex	pect to	sleep through the	night

	D	C	G	D	G
Some	people	say a	lie's a	lie's a	lie

	D	G	C
But	I	say	why

	F	C
Why deny the	obvious	child?

	F	C	G
Why deny the	obvious	child?

	D	G	C
And in re	membering a	road	sign

	G	D	C	G	D	G	C
	I am re	member	ing a	girl when	I was	young

	F	C	G	D	G
		And we	said These	songs are	true

	D	G
These	days are	ours

	D	G
These	tears are	free

	D	G
And	hey

	C	F	C
	The cross is in the	ball	park

	F	C	G
The cross is in the	ball	park

We had a lot of fun

	D	C
We had a lot of money

	G	D	C
We	had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny

	D	G
Sonny gets	married and	moves away

	C	D	G
	Sonny has a	baby and	bills to pay

	C	D
	Sonny gets	sunnier

	G	C	D
	Day by day by	day by	day

	G
	Doh, doh, doh, doh

Doh, doh, doh, doh

	D	C	G
Well, I've been	waking	up at	sunrise

	D	G	D	G
I've been	following the	light a	cross my	room

	D	G	C	F	C	G	D
I	watch	the	night receive the	room of	my	day

	G	D	C	G	D	G
	Some	people	say the	sky is	just the	sky

	D	G
But	I	say

	C	F	C
	Why deny the	obvious	child?

	F	C
Why deny the	obvious	child?

C/G

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	C/G	G	C	G	D	C
	Sonny	sits	by	his	window and	thinks to himself

	D	G	C	G	D	C
How	it's	strange	that	some	rooms are like	cages

	D	G	C	G	D
Son	ny's	year	book	from	high school

	C
Is	down from the shelf

	D	C	G	D	C
	And he i	d-	ly	thumbs through the	pages

	Ab	Bbm
Some	have	died

	G
Some have	fled from themselves

	C	G	D	G	D	G	D
Or	strug	gled	from	here	to	get	there

	C	G	C	G	D	C
	Sonny	wan	ders	be	yond his in	terior walls

	G	C	G	D	C
Runs his	hand	through	his	thinning brown	hair

	G
Well, I'm accustomed to a	smooth ride

	D	G	D	G
Or	maybe I'm a	dog who's	lost its	bite

	D	G	C	F
I don't ex	pect to	be	treated like a fool no	more

	C	G	D	D
	I don't ex	pect to	sleep through the	night

	D	C	G	D	G
Some	people	say a	lie's a	lie's a	lie

	D	G
But	I	say

	C	F	C
	the cross is in the	ball	park

	F	C	G
Why deny the	ob	vious	child?

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Obvious Child

Paul Simon

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