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[Verse]
AE
When I was fifteen and a man of the world
D
I was madly in love with a Catholic girl
BmD
She had gray Irish eyes and the whitest of teeth
BmE
And a body that left the whole neighborhood weak
[Verse]
AE
It was the body of a fully grown woman should have
D
In the spring of her years, in the summer of love
BmD
And for gentlemen callers, she had a dozen or more
BmE
But I was the one her dad let in the door
[Verse]
AE
And in the small hours, with the whole town asleep
D
I'd crawl out my window and climb down my tree
BmD
I'd light up a cigarette and walk to her house
BmE
And I'd climb to her window to lure her out
[Verse]
AE
And we’d go down to the park and lie in the grass
D
And we'd talk about life as it flew by so fast
BmD
And sometimes she'd kiss me, sometimes she'd let me
BmE
Touch her in the dark where I hadn't touched yet
[Bridge]
AE
And sometimes at her window I thought I would die
DE
She’d already be out with some other guy
[Chorus]
AA/G#A/F#E
Shawn, where have you gone
DA
It's nineteen sixty-eight, the Beatles are on
AA/G#A/F#D
I've got nine cigarettes, that should last till dawn
BmEAE
Shawn, where have you gone
[Verse]
AE
There was Bobby and Barry, Paul, Jim and Rick
D
You were so friendly I was literally sick
BmD
But when we were together I was more or less lost
BmE
Although I did what you told me, whatever the cost
[Verse]
AE
Sometimes I would help you when you'd babysit kids
D
But for all that we knew they'd be dead in their cribs
BmD
It was late in October, I think, when I heard
BmE
Everybody was talking, spreading the word
[Verse]
AE
Did you hear Shawn's pregnant, but she's keeping the kid
D
And she's not telling anyone who the guy is
BmD
When I saw you I didn't know quite what to say
BmE
Though I wasn't the only one speechless that day
[Verse]
A
A week later we learned that you’d dropped out of school
D
And all your old suitors were playing it cool
BmD
So I went to your house and I climbed up your tree
BmE
And all that I knew was it couldn't be me
[Bridge]
AE
You had left town, and you never came back
DE
And later I learned that the baby was black
[Chorus]
AA/G#A/F#E
Shawn, where have you gone
DA
It's nineteen sixty-eight, the Beatles are on
AA/G#A/F#D
I've got nine cigarettes, that should last till dawn
BmEAE
Shawn, where have you gone
[Verse]
AE
Now it's twenty years later, and I'm still the guy
D
With the fly-away hair and the smoke in his eye
BmD
It's our high-school reunion, everyone's here
BmE
Playing down the effects of the drugs and the beer
[Verse]
AE
We are balding and grey, overweight and just tired
D
So is the rock 'n' roll band someone hired
BmD
Paul and Barry, and Jim, Rick and Bob
BmE
Are all happy and healthy, though Jim lost his job
[Verse]
AE
We are married with children, mortgages too
D
And we can't believe all the things we used to do
BmD
We can still sing along to that song by the Byrds
BmE
Though it's harder each year to remember the words
[Verse]
AE
But we look back and laugh, the memories are warm D
And we still raise a glass to the old blue and orange
BmD
And the music is playing a tune from that year
BmE
And all I can think is that you should be here
[Verse]
AE
Because while we wax nostalgic, wistful, or sad
D
Still we celebrate something that you never had
BmD
A chance to grow slowly, a chance to find peace
BmE
You became an adult in thirty-six weeks
[Verse]
AE
And while we were enjoying the time to be young
D
You were somewhere alone taking care of your son
BmD
And it's not mine to say, to forgive or forget
BmE
And I wouldn't presume that you're full of regret
[Verse]
AE
But I wish you could see how we've turned into men
D
Now that we're all reunited again
BmD
And I wish I could see you though I can't make amends
BmE
For abandoning you when you needed your friends
[Verse]
AE
And I wish I could know that you're doing all right
D
Because your name came up several times here today
BmD
It was a magical mystery tour we were on
BmE
And a long winding road we're still traveling, Shawn
AE
When I was fifteen and a man of the world
D
I was madly in love with a girl in school