The Obvious Child Chords by Paul Simon

[Intro]

[Verse]
Ab7                                     
■   Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
               Ab7                     
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost it's bite
                             Db                 
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
  Gb           Db                        
I don't expect to sleep through the night
Ab7                                  
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie
          Db 
But I say why
    Db                    
Why deny the obvious child
                     Ab7  
Why deny the obvious child
Eb7                  Ab7      
And in remembering a road sign
Eb7                                Db   
I am remembering a girl when I was young


[Chorus]
            Eb7                 
And we said these songs are true
               Eb7 
These days are ours
Ab7   Eb7           
These tears are free
    Eb7
And hey
Db                          
The cross is in the ballpark
Db                          
The cross is in the ballpark
   Ab7 Ab     Ab7      Db 
We ■   ■  had a lot of fun
       Db            
We had a lot of money
         Ab                                            Db
We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny ■ 
Eb                               
Sonny gets married and moves away
                           Ab7   
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
      Ab7         
Sonny gets sunnier
                  Eb7   
Day by day by day by day
     Ab   Ab7                          
Well I've ■   been waking up at sunrise


[Verse]
                        Ab7                 
I've been following the light across my room
            Db                           Eb 
I watch the night receive the room of my day
Ab7                                        
■   Some people say the sky is just the sky
Ab7      
But I say
Db                        
Why deny the obvious child
                     Ab7  
Why deny the obvious child


[Chorus]
Ab Db Ab Db Ab
■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
Db                Eb                Db        
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
         Eb                               Db   
How it's strange that some rooms are like cages
        Eb                       
Sonny's yearbook from high school
        Db            
Is down from the shelf
    Ab      Eb                 Db   
And he idly thumbs through the pages
          Bbm 
Some have died
               Ab             
Some have fled from themselves
                       Cm     Eb   
Or struggled from here to get there
Db            Eb         Db            
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
         Eb                              Db  
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair
                         Ab7          
Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Db                 Eb                  
Or maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
                             Db                 
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
               Ab7               
I don't expect to sleep the night
                  Ab7              
Some people say a lie is just a lie
          Db                          
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
                     Ab7  
Why deny the obvious child


[Inst]
                 Db    
Woooooh woooh ho wooooh
           Eb    
Wooooh hoo wooooh
Ab7        Db Eb Ab7
Wooooh hoo ■  ■  ■  


[Outro]

[End]