Intro
Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G

Verse 1
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I remember when you were only seventeen
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You were the finest girl that my eyes had ever seen
                     Em                    C
I guess you found it hard to simply just ignore
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This scruffy beat up working class teenage troubadour
      G                  D                         Em          C
So we fell in love and I toured your heart with my out of tune guitar
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You were wonderful you were mystical and the envy of all of my friends
           G          D             C                 G
Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

Verse 2
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Oh what a time it was what a time to be alive
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Remember Janice and Jimmy Kennedy and King how they cried
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I sang to you the songs of Ramblin' Jack
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You were Greta Garbo and I was Karolac
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And we played so hard and we loved so hard seemed we never ever slept
          G                    D                    Em
They were crazy days they were wonderful days and I loved you with all of my
C
heart
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Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

Bridge
Em                            C
Your daddy had plans that did not include me
       Em                        C
And he won't stay away from your door
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And I dreamed how I dreamed I could steal you away
        Am              D
To some far off distant shore

Verse 3
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Then early one morning I awoke to find you gone
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You wrote 'I love you baby but it's time for me to move on'
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And so my teenage heart laid scattered on the floor
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I swear to God I could not have loved you anymore
         G                        D
And as I sit here tonight playing with my kids wondering
Em                    C
Where you are in this world
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Did you find your man are you happy now do you ever stop and think about me
      G              D             C                 G
How I long for yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach


Tabbed by Tony Coxill.
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