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Song title:       W*O*L*D
Original Album:   Short Stories

Words and Music by Harry Chapin
Copyright © 1973 Elektra Records
Published by ?

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

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  Hello Honey, it's me


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  What did you think when you      heard me back on the 


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  radio?


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  What did the kids say            when they knew it was their 


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  long lost       daddy      -     o?



VERSE:
Chords:
Em     022000
C      x32010
D      x00232
G      300033
Dadd11 300032
Am     x02210
F      x33211

  Em                            C
Remember how we listened to the radio
            D                   G    Dadd11
And I said "That's the place to be!"
    Em                      C           D               Am
And how I got the job as an FM jock the day you married me?
        G                       C   
We were two kids and I was into AM rock
      D                     Em
But I just had to run around
          F                   C
It's been eight years since I left you babe
       D                          Am
Let me tell you 'bout what's gone down


CHORUS:
Chords:
D/F#  200232
Fmaj7 033210
Em7   079787

  G              D     Em    Fmaj7
I am the morning DJ at W*O*L*D
C                 G    Dadd11 Em      D            Am
  Playing all the hits for    you wherever you may be
G                 D/F#                Em              Fmaj7
  The bright good-morning voice who's heard but never seen
C                G          D          Em7
  Feeling all of forty-five   going on fifteen


VERSE:
The drinking I did on my last big gig, it made my voice go low
They said that they liked the young sound when they let me go
So I drifted on down to Tulsa, Oklahoma to do me a late night talk-show
Now I worked my way down home again via Boise in Idaho
That's how this business goes...


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
B    224442

          Em
I've been making extra money doing high school sock hops
D
I'm a big-time guest MC
           F                      C                                   
You should hear me talking to the little children
    D                       B
And listen what they say to me
      Em                               D
Got a spot on the top of my head, just begging for a new toupée
          Fmaj7                   C
There's a tyre around my gut from sitting on my butt
         D               Em
But it's never gonna go away


VERSE:
Em                   C                   D                   G 
Sometimes I get this crazy dream, that I just took off in my car
            Em            D                  C                    Am                                          
But you can travel on ten thousand miles and still stay where you are
G                      C                       D                 Em
Thinking that I should stop disk jockeying and start that record store
F             C                    D                 Em
Maybe I could settle down if you'd take me back once more


[repeat INTRO figure]:

OK Honey, I see
I guess he's better than me
Sure, old girl, I understand
You don't have to worry, I'm such a happy man

Em
W-O-L-D, W-O-L-D, W-O-L, W-O-L, W-O-L-D...D...D


CHORUS:
Chords:
G      300033
D      x00232
Em     022000
Fmaj7  033210
C      x32010
Dadd11 300032
Am     x02210
D/F#   200232
Em7    079787

  G              D     Em    Fmaj7
I am the morning DJ at W*O*L*D
C                 G    Dadd11 Em      D            Am
  Playing all the hits for    you wherever you may be
G                 D/F#                Em              Fmaj7
  The bright good-morning voice who's heard but never seen
C                G          D          Em7
  Feeling all of forty-five   going on fifteen


CODA:
Chords:
F      x33211

  G              D     Em    F
I am the morning DJ at W*O*L*D


[repeat "W-O-L-D" to fade]