Bowl Of Oranges

Chords

Standard

There are other versions of this song here, but none of them
are in the right key. I transposed the guitar chords into uke
chords so this can be played along with the recording or with
a guitar, then tabbed out the piano bits. enjoy!

   G                              D              
The rain it started tappin on the window near my bed
            Am                         D
There was a loophole in my dreamin', so I got out of it
       Em                                C
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
        Am                                     D 
Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been


      G                                 D  
So I dressed myself and left then, out into the gray streets,
         Am                            D
But everything seemed different and completely new to me.
     Em                                 C     
The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body,
        Am                        D
And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet.

      G                        D
And I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health.
          Am                                 D
I said "There's nothing that I can do for you you can't do for yourself."
        Em                                    C
He said "Oh yes you can, just hold my hand; I think that that would help."
     Am                         D
So I sat with him a while and I asked him how he felt.
           C     G   Am           C     G   Am
He said "I think I'm cured... In fact, I'm sure. 
      C    G     Am           G             
Thank you, Stranger, for your therapeutic smile."

Piano interlude:

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          G                             D
So that's how I learned the lesson that everyone's alone,
         Am                           D
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow.
         Em
But when crying don't help and you can't compose yourself,
          C
It's best to compose a poem:
   Am                         D
an honest verse of longing or simple song of hope.


               G                              D
That's why I'm singing, Baby don't worry, cuz now I've got you back,
          Am                                   D
And every time you feel like cryin', I'm gonna try and make you laugh.
    Em                                          C
And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, we'll wait for it to pass
           Am                             D
And I will keep you company through those days so long and black.


               G                         D
And we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve 
          Am                               D
Of love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole
    Em                                              C
But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall,
       Am                                  D
Then I think we'd see the beauty, and we'd stand staring in awe
       C     G     Am          C    G      Am
at our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges;
       C  G  Am          G                   Em  G 
like a story told by the fault lines and the soil  

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