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0 => C 1 => C# 2 => D 3 => D# 4 => E 5 => F 6 => F# 7 => G 8 => G# 9 => A 10 => A# 11 => B
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The-Manuscript The-Manuscript Guitar Chords
Composer: Taylor Swift
Artist: Taylor Swift
Year: 2024
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Key (original): C
Key (transposed): C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B
Capo: No Capo
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Now and then she rereads the
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manuscript
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Of the entire torrid
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affair
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They compared their licenses
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”I’m not a donor but
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I’d give you my heart if you
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needed
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She rolled her eyes and said
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professional”
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”No, just a good
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samaritan”
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He said that if the sex was
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conversation
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they’d be pushin’
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strollers
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over
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In the age of him, she wished she was
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thirty
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coffee every morning in a
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Frеnch
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Afterwards she only atе
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kids’
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couldn’t sleep unless it was in
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her mother’s bed
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she dated boys who were
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her own age
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dart boards on the backs of
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their
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She thought about how he said
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wise beyond her years
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Everything had been above board
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She wasn’t
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sure
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And the years passed
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scenes of a show
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professor said to
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write what you know
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backwards
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only way to move forward
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Then the actors
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hitting their marks
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the slow dance
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with the sparks
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tears
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synchronicity with the score
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And at last
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knew what the agony had been
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for
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The only thing that’s left is the
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manuscript
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souvenir from my
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trip to your shores
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Now and then I
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reread the manuscript
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story isn’t mine
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anymore