Tuning My Guitar
(Transcribed by Jim McGuire)


I'm thinking what I'm doing I'm thinking what I've done
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I'm thinking about my mother she never thought I'd come
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Quite this far from nowhere to hear myself be sung
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But I still haven't forgotten I used to do it just for fun
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When all the ones around me would wonder if they saw
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Or heard me singing somewhere tuning my guitar
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Verse 2 ...... same chords as before


Knock once I got ten minutes an' every night's the same
You know I wish I wasn't in it when I hear them call my name
Same people all around me an' I wonder who they are
I know they're not my family and they're not my friends by far
They're all the ones around me I wonder who they are
They stand behind my curtain and hope I'll be a star

They say 'Get out and sell them'
But sellings not my aim
I'm gonna sing this life I'm living
An' try to ease the pain
Of all the ones around me I wonder who you are
You hide behind my curtain
An' you hope I'll be a star

But all the ones around me who don't know who you are
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You hide and you look uncertain and hope I'll be a star
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But all the ones around me no matter who you are
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Tonight you're gonna hold the curtain I'm tuning my guitar
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