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A Good Time

Capo 5th/2nd fret


C        F           C
Time was once just a clock to me,
                    F              G
And life was just a book - a biography.
   C        F                  C
Success was something you just had to be,
                    F             G
And I would spend myself unknowingly.
        F                 G         C
And you know that I could have me a million more friends,
    F                                     G
And all I'd have to lose is my point of view.
      C                  F
But I had no idea what a good time would cost,
          C            G                      C
Till last night when I sat and talked with you.

An apple will spoil if it's been abused;
A candle disappears when it's been used.
A rainbow may follow up a hurricane,
And I can't leave forever on a train.
And you know that I'd survive if I never spoke again,
And all I'd have to lose is my vanity.
But I had no idea what a good time would cost,
Till last night when you sat and talked with me.

You can smile for the lack of something else to do,
And no one will laugh and point at you.
If your tears didn't always make me feel so bad,
Would you still cry everytime that you felt sad?
I thought I'd heard and seen enough to get along,
Till you said something neither of us knew.
But I had no idea what a good time would cost,
Till last night when I sat and talked with you.

(Words and music by John Prine, 1971)

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