Harry Chapin

Old College Avenue

Harry Chapin


Tom: Em

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Of course I picked a rainy night to try to find our past

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The street lights all were flickering, the leaves were falling fast
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I walked down the winding road and look up through the trees
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And I saw the corner window that you once shared with me


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It was Old College Avenue and in the time of having you
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I remember it as if it were today
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The tiny room and the single bed
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Though the tangled trails of time have led us far astray
                    D
The memory seems to stay
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And through all the roads that led me on
            C
And through all the years that you've been gone
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I have found that it would never go away
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It was Old College Avenue and in the time of having you
     G           D7
I remember it as if it were today

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That fall turned in to winter, the winter into spring

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And all the while you led me through a sweet awakening
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But summer never came that year, it's what you went to find
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And you took my future with you, and you left your past behind

       G             G7       C
It was Old College Avenue and in the time of having you
    G                            D
I remember it as if it were today
    G                  G7
The tiny room and the single bed
           C                                  G
Though the tangled trails of time have led us far astray
                    D
The memory seems to stay
            Bm
And through all the roads that led me on
            C
And through all the years that you've been gone
       Em                     C     Fmaj7    D7
I have found that it would never go away
       G            G7        C
It was Old College Avenue and in the time of having you
     G           D7           Em
I remember it as if it were today
    Am7            D7        G
I remember you as if it were today