Hey There Delilah (diatonic)

By: Tom Higgenson
Plain White T’s
Key: D

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Hey there De-li-lah
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what’s it like in New York Cit-y
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I’m a thou-sand miles a-way
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But girl to-night you look so pret-ty,
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yes you do
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Times Square can’t shine as bright as you,
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I swear it’s true

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Hey there De-li-lah
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don’t you wor-ry a-bout the dis-tance
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I’m right there if you get lone-ly
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give this song an-oth-er lis-ten
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Close your eyes,
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Lis-ten to my voice it’s my dis-guise
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I’m by your side

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Oh it’s what you do to me
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Oh it’s what you do to me
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Oh it’s what you do to me
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Oh it’s what you do to me
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What you do to me

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Hey there De-li-lah,
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I know times are get-ting hard
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But just be-lieve me girl,
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Some-day I’ll pay the bills with this gui-tar
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We’ll have it good,
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we’ll have the life we knew we would
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My word is good

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Hey there De-li-lah,
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I’ve got so much left to say
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If ev-‘ry sim-ple song I wrote to you
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Would take your breath a-way,
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I’d write it all
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Ev-en more in love with me you’d fall,
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we’d have it all

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A thou-sand miles seems pret-ty far
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But they’ve got planes and trains and cars
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I’d walk to you if I had no oth-er way
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Our friends would all make fun of us
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And we’ll just laugh a-long be-cause we know
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That none of them have felt this way

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De-li-lah I can prom-ise you
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That by the time we get through
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The world will nev-er ev-er be the same
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And you’re to blame

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Hey there De-li-lah
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You be good and don’t you miss me
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Two more years and you’ll be done with school
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And I’ll be mak-ing his-t’ry like I do

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You know it’s all be-cause of you
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We can do what-ev-er we want to
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Hey there De-li-lah here’s to you
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This one’s for you

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Oh whoa whoa
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Oh whoa whoa
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Oh oh oh

Hey There Delilah (diatonic)

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