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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
From: sjohnson@usa.net
Places In My Past
(James Taylor) (c)1971
Cmaj9 - - - F/G - - -
          Cmaj9   Am7Am7Em7F
                  ,   
There are ladies in my life
Dm7    F/G             Cmaj9
Lovely ladies in these lazy days
             Am7   Cmaj9  D7
And though I never took a wife
      G               Dm7      Fmaj7  Em7    F F/G
May I say that I have loved me one or two
       Cmaj9   Am7Am7Em7F
               ,   
Of the people in my past
Dm7        F/G     Cmaj9
Fading fac-es in a waking dream
                Am7   Cmaj9       D7        G
And though they never seemed to last very long
          Dm7   Fmaj7       Em7
There are faces I     remem-ber
         F      F/G    Cmaj9
>From the places in  my past
         F      Dm7       G/A
I said, all the dead-head miles
        Dm7               G
And the insincere smiles
Em7              Am7      Em7           F      Dm7   F/G G
Sometimes I can laugh and cry and I can't remember why
    Am Em7   F    F/G
But I still love those
Cmaj9    Am7Am7Em7F
         ,   
good times gone by
Dm7     F/G              Cmaj9
Hold on to them close or let them go
Am7 Cmaj9     D7
    I don't know
        G                 Dm7
I just seem to sing these songs
    Fmaj7Em7             F   F/G  Cmaj9
                                 - - -
And say I'm sorry for the friends I used to know
F/G - - - Cmaj9 - - - F/G - - - Cmaj9

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
From: sjohnson@usa.net
Places In My Past
(James Taylor) (c)1971
Cmaj9 - - - F/G - - -
F/G - - - Cmaj9 - - - F/G - - - Cmaj9

Places In My Past Chords by James Taylor

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