Only A Game Chords – Tom Paxton | Easy Guitar Chords

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Only A Game Chords – Tom Paxton

Only A Game Chords By Tom Paxton. Only A Game Guitar Chords. Only a Game from the album Bulletin by Tom Paxton. Only A Game Tom Paxton Chords.

Only A Game Chords

Capo On 2nd Fret

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While stopping
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one innocent afternoon
E7
For paper and magazines
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My attention was drawn
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to a riot of colour
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The loveliest I’ve ever seen
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All in the shape of a plastic cube
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Red and yellow and blue
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“How lovely,” I cried,
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“What a clever design!
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Great, tell me sir,
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what does it do?”

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“That’s easy,” he said as
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he handled my cash
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And he dropped
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the cube into a sack
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“Some of the colours
E
you twist left or right
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Some you twist forward,
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some back
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Before very long if
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you’re clever at this
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You’ve got all
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the colours the same
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And then if you like,
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you start over again
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For it’s fun and it’s only a game.”

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“Only a game, only a game.”
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I’m muttering under my breath
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“Only a game, only a game
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Like dying is only death!”
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I talk to myself as
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I walk down the street
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Till old friends all cry,
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“What a shame!
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For he used to say ‘Hello!’
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and ‘How do you do?’
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All he says now is ‘Only a game’!”

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That night after dinner,
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I settled myself
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Planning to watch some TV
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Safe in the warmth of
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my favourite chair
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And the bosom of my family
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Basking in fellowship,
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brimful of cheer
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I bade my child, “Turn on the tube!”
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And as I was watching
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my favourite show
E7 A
I carelessly picked up the cube

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I twiddled it this way,
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I twiddled it that
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“Haha!” I exclaimed,
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“This is strange!
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No matter how often
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I twiddle this cube
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The blasted thing
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don’t seem to change!”
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I felt myself growing
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the slightest bit warm
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As I twisted and whirled and spun
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They tell me they found me
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there early next morn
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I was screaming,
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“By God, nearly done!”

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“For it’s only a game,
A
only a game.”
E7
I’m muttering under my breath
E
“Only a game, only a game
A
Like dying is only death!”
A
I talk to myself as
A
I walk down the street
A7
Till old friends all cry,
D
“What a shame!
D
For he used to say ‘Hello!’
A
and ‘How do you do?’
E7 A
All he says now is ‘Only a game’!”

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Somehow I got dressed
A
and they drove me to work
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And I slowly came out my haze
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By a fierce act of will,
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I sat down to my tasks –
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There was talk
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I might soon earn a raise
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The boss called me
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into his office at ten
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And he said to me,
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“Glad that you came!
D
For I’m thinking of adding
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this toy to our line
E7 A
For it’s fun and it’s only a game!”

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Well, I don’t know what happened –
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I don’t want to know
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I’ll have all my life to repent
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They say I did something
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with that little cube
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That the boss was
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obliged to resent
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And now I get visitors
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here in my room
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And they murmur,
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“Poor man, what a shame!
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For he’s twisting his ears
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and he’s twiddling his nose
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And he tells us it’s only a game!”