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)

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    CC Piano Chord 
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Everyone has days like I'm having
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Holdin on to anything that I can
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          CC Piano Chord 
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To keep myself from anything but laughing
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Looking back as far as I can stand
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Out my window winter is almost over
EmEm Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
                 GG Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 

I can almost see the sun behind these clouds
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         EmEm Piano Chord 

Lookin' back on where I was one year ago today
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Laughing at the shape I'm in now.

Chorus:
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When I was a child I spoke as a child
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But all I heard was how I should get ahead,
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Now growing up it ain't anything but all
EmEm Piano Chord 
                  CC Piano Chord 

This indecision with these debts and doubts
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And worries hanging over my head
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          EmEm Piano Chord 

When I was a child I spoke as a child
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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