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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

A                       D           A
Where were you when the lights went out?
A                       E           A
Where were you when the lights went out?
D               A
Driving my taxi far and wide,
  D              A
A helping hand I did provide
        E       A       D
Getting fifteen bucks a ride
         A           E        A      E
When the lights went out last night.

Where were you when the lights went out?
Where were you when the lights went out?
Up in Central Park behind a tree
To mug someone if I could see,
When suddenly someone clobbered me,
When the lights went out last night.

Where were you when the lights went out?
Where were you when the lights went out?
Somewhere up near the 35th floor,
Picking the lock on the boss's door,
For we couldn't have a party with nothing to pour
When the lights went out last night.

Where were you when the lights went out?
Where were you when the lights went out?
Down at Con Edison all through the night
Where they kept on saying things would be all right,
But I had to wonder when they asked me for a light
When the lights went out last night.

Where were you when the lights went out?
Where were you when the lights went out?
From answering I must refrain,
My Con Ed job's gone down the drain,
And I made a reservation on a flight to Spain
When the lights went out last night.

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1965)

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