Sidewalk Chalk (CHORDS) by Anna Graceman

[Verse]~
C                    F
We all start off so young

G                   Am
We all start off so innocent

C                          F
Used to think that time moved slow

C                     G
Now we don’t know where it went


[Pre-Chorus]~
Am                 Dm
Why do we have to grow up..?

Dm                   F
Why do we have to get old..?

G                          C                    G
There’s just some things I don’t wanna give up,.. you know..?


[Chorus]~
C       Am
Like lemonade stands

F                                G
People’d give us money even when it tasted bad

C                   Am                         F
We didn’t have any plans,.. and we were fine with that

G           Am                   Dm
When my invisible friend and I talked

F                                 C                                G
And we’d color the streets with imagined things and all of our dreams

Am
In sidewalk chalk


[Verse]~
C                   F
We all get lost sometimes

G                      Am
We all get a little off the path

C                           F
That’s usually how you find yourself

C                                G
One day you’ll look back and you’ll laugh


[Pre-Chorus]~
Am                 Dm
Why do we have to grow up..?

Dm                   F
Why do we have to get old..?

G                          C                    G
There’s just some things I don’t wanna give up,.. you know..?


[Chorus]~
C                         Am
Like those clear,.. cold nights

F                     G
We’d bundle up and count the stars in sight

C            Am            F             G
We were freezing but we were fine with that

Am                       Dm
When that friend and I used to talk

F                                                   G
And we’d color the streets with imagine things and all of our dreams

Am
In sidewalk chalk


[Bridge]~
Dm                         Am
First we’re too young for things

Dm                        F
Then we’re too old for things

C
Then we’re supposed to forget those things

G                                      Dm
And turn the page once we hit a certain age

Am
But I don’t wanna move on

F
And I won’t ever forget

C                 G                    C
Cause those things they make me who I am


[Chorus]~
C                            Am
Like how we’d run down the halls

F                               Gm                      C
Singing songs so loud you could hear us through the walls

Dm                         F                G
Didn’t know the words but we were fine with that

Am                           Dm
Then we’d sit on the pavement and talk

Gm                             F                 C           G
And color the streets with imagined things and all of our dreams

Am
In sidewalk chalk