vanessa carlton - harmonium (songbook)

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C'est La Vie 64

Afterglow 42

Annie 22

Who's To Say 12

White Houses 2

Private Radio 48

Half A Week Before The Winter 56

Papa 69San Francisco 32

She Floats 75



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a

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ing free, -

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at - my back,-

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Words and Music by VANESSA

CARLTON

and STEPHAN JENKINS

Moderately

N.C.

Withpedal

Om

83r.

Fsus

;;

(Ba - da - dup,

ba

-

da

-

dup, got

-

ta get a

lit - tIe.

Om

83fr

.

'

Fsus

;;

N.C.

Ba - da - dup,

y--

has gone to bed:-

a - da - dup, got - ta get a

lit - tIe.)

All the world-



and I am drown

ing

in its-

si - lence.- But

a

sol - i-tude-

lives in

my-

head from

you -

ba - by.-

if the si - lence

was a

song

nd

its

rhy - thm

grooves -

and it s

a

pn

vate

di

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50

And on this night I do be

- long-

in har

'

mo

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E3fr

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18

F

II

(Ah.)

ny. You- can't -

~~ i

de ny me;-

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Csus2/BP

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F Csus2

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r

r

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blige

me.- It's -

my-

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Gm Fsus

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dv. - When the

night - comes,

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00-

(Ba - da - dup,

ba - da - dup,

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a

lit - tIe.

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And find me out-

of

my

pil

low,

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.cause

I m

ly - in

here - but I

am read

y

good

to

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go

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Lr

r

LJ

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one

knows, -

I can feel- it:

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a lit - tie.

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ba - da -

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EPsus2

Gm Fsus

Gm

EPsus2

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r

I

goty pri - vate

ra

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di - o.

dup, got - ta get

a lit - tIe.

Ba - da - dup,

ba - da

- dup,

got - ta get

a lit - tie.



52

if

on

a whim - I leave

town.

Or

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Csus2jD

.3r,

D.S. al Coda

not;-

I'll

stay -

and chase -

de -

CODA

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M3r,

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tIi

F5jE

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M3r,

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m

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me

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the

mel - 0 -

dy-

that s

in

my-

Gm

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Fsus

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When

the

night

(To - mor -

comes,

row,

may

no one will

ev - er-

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it:

my-

own.-

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row,

may

no

one

will

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lit

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ba - da

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a

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THE WINTER

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c s

1;I4f'

N.C.

Half

a

week -

be - fore-

the win

ter;

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the chill

bites -

be - fore- it comes.-

N.C.

And I'm a child -

of-

the pleas

ure

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fore- he runs. -

hat

AS

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desk- of ma - hog- a - ny;

r

C S

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he whis -pers dreams -

in - to - my

ear.-

r

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to

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my eyes. -

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F /A

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de - liv - ers me-

my-

fear. -

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ES

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in

coats -

of

white. -



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Igt

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all-

the weight - of emp ty prom-

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as I stand swal-lowed

by

the

r

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flick - er

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a - bove-

the high -

r

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and know- the streets-



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AS

;lSf

ES

II

are mine-

to - night.-

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tired; -

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