{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1043522,"song":"Old Eyes","artist":"Juluka","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11230347-old-eyes-chords-by-juluka/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1043522?type=chord","rating":0.03465,"votes":0,"content":"Verse 1:\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI was the only one who witnessed my homecoming[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]-[ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo I asked myself: Brother Joseph, how've you been?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen I met an old man who knew me as a boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]-[ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n(I) said, Father, where've the people, where've the homesteads gone?[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he said, Son, I'll be old until I die now[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd then I will join our people in the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am not the one to ask the reasons why[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]-[ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYour brothers and your sisters have been scattered in the wind[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus:\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he said old eyes (mehlomadala)[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou've got old eyes, boy (mehlomadala)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou've seen much too much for one so young[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]-[ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe said old eyes (mehlomadala)[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou've got old eyes, boy (mehlomadala)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]-[ch]G[/ch]\r\nChild, from whence have you come?[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 2:\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I left that mountain land so gold and green[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was a sturdy sixteen years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWork was hard and the wage was low[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the seasons passed me by one by one[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I dreamed, Maria, you would wait for my return[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe'd build a home upon the rock, beneath the smiling sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut as the old man used to say when I was young[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPeople come and people go, but the mountain still remains[/tab]\r\n\r\nZulu chorus:\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he said mehlomadala, mehlomadala[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAng(i)sakwaz(i) wemganam(i)[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]-[ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe said mehlomadala, mehlomadala[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]-[ch]G[/ch]\r\n(U)qhamkaphi wena wemganam(i)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n----------------------------------------\r","plain_text":"Verse 1:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 2:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZulu chorus:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n----------------------------------------","chords":["C","G","Am","F","Dm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}