Intro: D C G D C G D
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The book I bought yesterday
D
I started to read
C G
I found a small marigold
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Pressed between leaves
C G
And in that small marigold
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Well, I found a note
C G
Saying, "Please won't you write to me
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'Cause I'm so alone"
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So, I'm going to write back today
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Yes, I'm going to write right away____
C G
I started, 'Dear Marigold'
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Not knowing her name
C G
I just had to write to you
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'Cause I feel the same
C G
You sound like that marigold
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That I found today
C G
The beauty was there to be found
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But fading away
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So, I'm writing to you today
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Yes, I'm writing to you right away____
C G
As I started writing
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Well, what can I say?
C G
I got to thinking
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Where are you today?
C G
Brown leather cover
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Ripped, tattered and torn
C G
It's been such a long, long time
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Since the flower was born
C G D
There's no need to write back today
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I'm not going to write right away____
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Just like a swan she is gliding
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Drifting from here unto there
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She has no thoughts of dying
F E Am
Winter does not mean despair
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Warm summer nights left behind her
F E Am
Thinking of things that she's done
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Once were her friends all around her
F E Am
But now she is only one
Bridge:
A F#m
Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground
Bm E7
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found
A F#m
You were left on your own
Bm E7
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly
F Am
When your friends left that night
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