{"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":2115761,"song":"I Blinked Once","artist":"Steve Forbert","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11459364-i-blinked-once-chords-by-steve-forbert/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2115761?type=chord","rating":4.63967,"votes":5,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nChildhood often seemed a pain to me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nSo hard waiting to be grown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nChildhood climbed up in a white oak tree[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAirplane flyin' across a midnight sky[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nHis tiny lights blinked off and on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI watched him move across the moon on high[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nWell I blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGone, gone, yeah[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nA girl I'd met was all I cared for, friends[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI called her my very own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe went down to hear the band begin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and she was gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]-[ch]Am[/ch]-[ch]G[/ch]-[ch]C[/ch] x2 [ch]G[/ch]-[ch]Am[/ch]-[ch]F[/ch]-[ch]G[/ch]-[ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGone, gone, yeah[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI won big money on the gamblin' wheel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nAnd I thought I was sittin' on a throne[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nBig John told me 'bout his condo deal[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe nineteen seventies was ten long years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nWas ten long years to sing a song[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt kicked off madly with a New Year's cheer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nThat's right, it was gone, gone, yeah[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and it was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow old man's talkin' 'bout a gun he'd shot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nAn' he weren't much more than skin and bone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLyin' there breathin' on this worn out cot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and he was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nAnd he was gone, gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and he was gone, gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and he was gone, gone, gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C/F[/ch]\r\nI blinked once and he was gone[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\nC-Am-G-C x2 G-Am-F-G-C","chords":["C","Am","G","C/F","A","F"],"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]},"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]}}}