WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Words and Music by ADELE ADKINS and TOBIAS JESSO JR.
Moderately
Guitar: Bm
(Capo I)
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D/F#
Em7
Cm
Eb/G
Ab
Eb/G
Fm7
Piano:
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Bm
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Ev ’ry bod y loves the things you
do,
from the way you talk
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Bm
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Fm7
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Cm
Eb/G
to the way you move.
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Ev ’ry bod y here
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is watch
ing
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Em7
D
Ab
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Fm7
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’cause you feel like
you,
home,
you’re like a dream come
true.
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G
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Ab
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by
so
But if
I was
chance
scared
you’re here
to face
a
my
I have
can
’cause no bod
lone,
fears,
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Bm
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ment
me
be fore I
that you’d be
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Fm7
hop ing you’re
that’s what you
mo
told
’Cause I’ve been by my
self all night
And I swear you’d moved o ver
go?
here.
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long,
seas:
a
y
some
said
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one
I
used
when you
to
left
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A
G
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Bbsus
Bb
Ab
Bb(add4)
know.
me.
You look like a mov
look like a mov
You still
ie,
ie,
3
you sound like
you still sound like
a
a
3
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G
A[add4]
Ebmaj9/G
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song;
song;
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my God, this
re
minds
me
of when
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young.
to
Let me pho
graph
you
in
G
A[add4]
D
D/F#
Ab
Bb(add4)
Eb
Eb/G
it
is
the
last
time
that we
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might
be
ex act
this
light,
ly
like
we were
in
we
case
were
G
A[add4]
Bm
D/F#
Ab
Bb(add4)
Cm
Eb/G
be fore
we
re
G
al ized
we were sad
of
get ting old,
it made us rest
1
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Gm
3fr
Ab
Abm
Fm7
It was just like
less.
a mov
3
ie,
it was just like
a
3
2
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A
Em7
Bbsus
Bb
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-
song.
3
it was just like a
ie,
Asus
F#7/A#
Bbsus
G/B
song.
(When we
3
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G
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Em7
Cm
Eb/Bb
Ab
Eb/G
Fm7
were young,
when we
were young,
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when we
were young,
when we
Asus
F#7/A#
Bm
D/A
Bbsus
G/B
Cm
Eb/Bb
were young.)
It’s
to
hard
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Eb/G
Fm7
’ry
thing
just
takes
me
back
to when
win
me
you were there,
F#7/A#
Bm
D/A
Bbsus
G/B
Cm
Eb/Bb
And a
part
G
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Em7
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Fm7
in
case
it
has
n’t
gone.
I guess
me
of
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keeps hold
ing
on
just
3
I
3
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to when you
Asus
were there.
there.
still care.
Do
you
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still
It was just like
care?
a mov
3
it was just like
ie,
a
3
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G
A[add4]
Gm
Ab
Bb(add4)
My God, this
song.
re
me
minds
of when
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G
A[add4]
Gm
Bb(add4)
Eb
Eb/G
Ab
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we were
young.
(When we
when we
were young,
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were young,
when we
D
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Eb/G
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when
were young,
we
Let me pho
were young.)
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A[add4]
Eb
Eb/G
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Bb(add4)
to graph you in
this
light,
in
case
it
is
the last
time
D
D/F#
G
A[add4]
Eb
Eb/G
Ab
Bb(add4)
be
ex act
ly
like
we
were
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be fore
we re
al ized
that we might
we were sad
Bm
D/F#
G
A[add4]
Cm
Eb/G
Ab
Bb(add4)
of
get ting
old,
Bm
it made us
rest
Oh, I’m
less.
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G
so
Gm
3fr
Cm
Eb/G
mad
at
get ting old,
Abm
Ab
it makes me
Em
Fm
reck
less.
It was just like
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A
D5
Bbsus
Bb
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3
ie,
it was just like a
when we
song
3
rit.
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were young.
a mov