The Teacher Chords by Paul Simon

[Start]

[Verse]
Fm                                         
■  There once was a teacher of great renown
Fm                                        
Whose words were like the tablets of stone
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Because it's easier to learn than unlearn
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Because we've passed the point of no return
                             C 
Gather your goods and follow me
Fm                    
Or you will surely die
      Fm                      
I was only a child of the city
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My parents were children of immigrant stock
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So we followed as followers go
     Fm                              
Over a mountain with a napkin of snow
            Fm               
And ate the berries and roots
                     Fm        
That grown along the timberline
Db                    Abmaj7         
Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love
Fm                       
Sleep on a quilt of stars
         
It's cold


[Inst]
C7        Fm                          C
Sometimes you can't catch your breath ■
Fm          
It's so cold


[Verse]
Fm                                   
Time and abundance thickened his step
Abmaj7         Fm            
So the teacher divided in two
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One half ate the forest and fields
                                                C     
The other half sucked all the moisture from the clouds
    Fm                                             Bbm
And we we were amazed at the power of his appetite ■  


[Chorus]
Fm                       Eb         C   
■  Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love
Fm                C       
Sleeps on a quilt of stars
Fm                                
Sometimes we don't know who we are


[Verse]
                              C         
Sometimes force overpowers us and we cry
   Ab      Fm           
My teacher carry me home
         Abmaj7                
Carry me ■      home my teacher
Abmaj7       
Carry me home
                        
Carry me home my teacher
             
Carry me home
Fm Eb Ab C C7 Fm Eb Ab
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[Outro]
Fm Abmaj7 Fm
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[End]