Old Friend

from "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road"

by

NANCY FORD

Lyrics by: GRETCHEN CRYER

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 OLD FRIEND
(from “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road”)
Lyrics by Music by
GRETCHEN CRYER NANCY FORD

Moderately slow
Fmaj7 G/F Em7 C/E Fmaj7 G/F

Love is rare, life is strange. Noth - ing lasts,

3
(with pedal)

Em7 C/E Fmaj7 D/F Gsus G F/G G

peo - ple change. Ev-’ry

C G/B Am Csus/G C/G F C/E

time I’ve lost an - oth - er lov - er, I call up my old

somewhat freely

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Dm F/G G Dm7 G

friend and I say, “Let’s get to-geth - er, I’m un-der the weath-er.

Dm7 G C2 C G/B

An-oth - er love has come to an end.” And he lis - tens as I tell him my sad

a tempo

Am Csus/G C/G F C/E Dm

sto - ry, and he won -ders at my taste in men. And we

F/G G Dm7 G Dm7 G

pon-der why I do it and the pain of get-ting through it. And he laughs and says, “You’ll do it a - gain.”

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Csus C F G/F Em7 C/E

And we sit in a bar and talk ’til two. a-bout

B /D Fsus/C F G/B

life and love as old friends do, and tell each oth - er what

Am Am/ G Fmaj7 G/F Em7 C/E

we’ve been through, how love is rare and life is strange.

Fmaj7 G/F Em7 C Fmaj7 D/F

Noth-ing lasts and peo - ple change.

continue legato

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Gsus G F/G G C G/B Am Csus/G C/G

And I ask him if his life is ev - er lone - ly,

F C/E Dm F/G G

And if he ev-er feels des - pair. And he says he’s learned to love it, and that’s

Dm7 G Dm7 G Csus C

real - ly all part of it. And it helps him feel the good times when they’re there. Yes, we

F G/F Em7 C/E B /D

sit in a bar and talk ’til two a-bout life and love, as

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Fsus/C F/C G/B Am Am/G

old friends do, and tell each oth - er what we’ve been through, how

Fmaj7 G/F Em7 C/E Fmaj7 G/F

love is rare and life is strange. Noth-ing lasts

Em7 C/E Fmaj7 G/F Em7 C/E

and peo - ple change.

A /E E D /A A D A /C

And we won-der if we’ll live with an - y

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D A /C Bm D maj7/A E m

lov - ers, or spend our lives a - lone. And the

G /A A E m7 A E m7 A

bar-ten-der is doz-ing, and it’s get-ting time for clos-ing. And we fig-ure that we’ll go it on our

D G A /G Fm7 D /F

own. But we’ll meet the year we’re six - ty two, and

C /E G sus G /D A /C

trav - el the world as old friends do, and tell each oth - er what

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B m B m/A G maj7 A /G Fm7 D /F

we’ve been through, how love is rare and life is strange.

G maj7 A /G Fm7 D /F G maj7 A /G

Noth-ing lasts and peo - ple change. How love is rare,

Fm7 D /A G maj7 A /G Fm7 D /F

life is strange. Noth-ing lasts, peo - ple change.

G maj7 A /G Fm7 D /F E m7 A sus A D

Oo, oo

molto rit.

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