Capo 4
Intro
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Verse
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
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Moon plays the ocean like a vio-lin
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Pushing and pulling from shore to shore, biggest melody you never heard be-
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-fore, what if I were the night sky, what if I were the night sky, here's my lullaby
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Follow this picking pattern throughout.
C/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
C/G G C
Moon plays the ocean like a violin
C/F
Pushing and pulling from shore to shore,
C/F C
Biggest melody you never heard before.
G
What if I were the night sky?
C/F
What if I were the night sky?
C G
It's my lullaby; My lullaby to leave by
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C/F
Lullaby to leave by.
C
If I were the night
C/G
What if we hadn't been born at the same time
C/G G C
What if you were 75 and I were 9?
C/F
Would I come visit you?
C
Bring you cookies in an old folks' home
G
Would you be there alone?
Am
When the late summer lightning fires off in your arms
C
Will I remember to breathe? No, I never will.
Am
If I could convince you that I mean you no harm
C
Just wanna show you how not to need
G C/F
If i were the the night sky... and if i were the night sky
C
Heres my lullaby
G C/F
My lullaby to leave by
C
If i were the night
C/G x4 G C (let ring)
C (let ring)
What if we hadn't been each other at the same time
C/F
Would you tell me all the stories from when you're young and in your prime
Would I rock you to sleep
C
Would you tell me all the secrets you don't need to keep
G
Would I still miss you
C/F C
Oh, would you then have been mine?
C/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
G (let ring)
Moon plays the ocean like a violin
