Tom: Am F Em Dm Dm F Em F F F F [Verse 1] F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Sugar water to the brim, they told me it’d be spring F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Early Sep-tember and my first glimpse of tiny wings F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Summer’s coming to an end, mag-nolias are in bloom F C G Am F C Dm Dm Well Birming-ham this time of year is giving me hope, too F C Dm Dm Giving me hope, too [Chorus] C E F I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh - ooh - ooh) C E F I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh - ooh - ooh) C E F This is surely true Ooh-ooh-ooh F Fm It doesn’t matter when you bloom F It matters that you do Em Dm (Ooh-ooh-ooh) F Em G G G G Ooh-ooh-ooh [Verse 2] F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Keeping track and counting down, again I’m over due F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Watching everyone around get there before I do F Em Dm C F C Dm Dm Looking in the mirror at this body that betrays F C G Am F C Dm Dm But looking out the window, late bloomers on parade F C G G Late bloomers on parade [Chorus] C E F I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh - ooh - ooh) C E F I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh - ooh - ooh) C E F This is surely true Ooh-ooh-ooh F Fm It doesn’t matter when you bloom F It matters that you do Em Dm (Ooh-ooh-ooh) [Post-Chorus] F Em G G Ooh-ooh-ooh F Em Dm C Ooh-ooh-ooh F Em G G Ooh-ooh-ooh [Chorus] C E F Yeah, I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh-ooh - ooh) C E F I’m a late bloo-mer (Ooh-ooh-ooh) C E F This is surely true Ooh-ooh-ooh F Fm It doesn’t matter when you bloom F It matters that you do Em Dm (Ooh-ooh-ooh) [Outro] F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Em Dm It matters that you do (matters that you do) F Fm It doesn’t matter when you bloom N.C. It matters that you do