Picture Book

Words & Music:

The Kinks

 

            E        A         D         G

e|-----||-----------------------------------------||

B|-----||-----------------------------------------||

G|-----||0-------------------------------0-------0|| [2x - 2nd time don't play last note]

D|-----||0---------------------0-0--2-4-----(4)--0||

A|-----||------------0-0--2-4---------------------||

E|-12\-||--0-0--2-4-------------------------------||

 

E           A         D              G   E  A  D  G

Picture yourself when you're getting old.

E          A        D         G   E  A  D  G

Sat by the fireside pondering on.

 

CHORUS:

C             F                C     F             C      F          C

Picture book; pictures of your mama, taken by your papa a long time ago.

C

Picture book

   F                C         F                     C        F          C

Of people with each other, to prove they loved each other, a long time ago.

F             C      F             C

La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la.

C          A  D  G  C          A  D  G  C

Picture Book-----,  Picture Book---------.

 

A picture of you in your birthday suit,

Sat in the sun on a hot afternoon.

 

CHORUS:

Picture Book.

Your mama & papa & fat old uncle Charlie, a-boozing with their friends.

Picture Book.

A holiday in August, outside a bed and breakfast, in sunny South End.

Picture Book,

When you were just a baby, those days when you were happy, a long time ago.

La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la.

Picture Book-----,  Picture Book---------.

 

C             F      C      F      C      F            C

Picture Book; La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la; scooby-dooby-doo.  [2x]

 

Picture Book; pictures of your mama, taken by your papa, a long time ago.

F    C                               A  D  G  C

Long time ago.  [3x]  Yeah!  Yeah!  Yeah!

 





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