I Spoke As A Child

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:42:36 -0600
From: arabella@mail.utexas.edu (Arabella Clauson)
Subject: CRD:"I Spoke as a Child" (Todd Snider)

From: Pat Wildt 

 

                        I Spoke as a Child
                        By:  Todd Snider

Guitar arrangement for recording of vocal w/ piano accompaniment.
When changing from G to Em, walk the base line down from the
G note (3rd fret low E or 1st string), to F# (2nd fret 1st string)
to open 1st string (E note)


 G             
 Bm    
 C        
 G
Everyone has days like I'm having

 C               
 G             
 D
Holdin on to anything that I can

 G           
 Bm          
 C           
 G
To keep myself from anything but laughing

 C                
 G             
 D
Looking back as far as I can stand

 C               
 D               
 G
Out my window winter is almost over
      
 Em              
 C                 
 G       
 D
I can almost see the sun behind these clouds

 C                 
 D              
 G         
 Em
Lookin' back on where I was one year ago today

 C                 
 D           
 G
Laughing at the shape I'm in now.

Chorus:

 D                      
 C          
 G
When I was a child I spoke as a child
     
 C               
 G                
 D
But all I heard was how I should get ahead,
     
 C                    
 D           
 G
Now growing up it ain't anything but all
         
 Em                  
 C
This indecision with these debts and doubts
            
 D
And worries hanging over my head
     
 C        
 D       
 G          
 Em
When I was a child I spoke as a child
   
 C             
 D              
 G
I wish I could remember what I said

I'd like to find that old time feelin'
Somewhere in between what I've become
Somewhere down the line it must have seemed appealing
So I suppose that it must work for some
But I wanna go back to going crazy
Believing every word that I was told
You know sometimes growing up I think I'm getting wiser
And then other times I think I'm getting old

Chorus:
When I was a child I spoke as a child
But all I heard was how I should get ahead
Now growing up it ain't anything but all this
Indecision with these debts and doubts and
Worries hangin' over my head
When I was a child I spoke as a child
I wish I could remember what I said

When I was a child I spoke as a child
God I wish I could remember what I said