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Older Sister Tab

by Carly Simon


Older Sister from Hotcakes - 1974

(f) = Fret

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She rides in the front seat
(3thf)
She's my older sister
                         
She knows her power over me
(5thf)                        
She goes to bed an hour later than I do
                           
When she turns the lights out
                     
What does she think about?
                              
And what does she do in the daylight
                   
That makes her so great?

                         
Oh but to be, oh but to be, oh but to be

I'd like to be
                (4thf)
My older sister


She flies through the back door
She's my older sister
(3thf)                               
She throws French phrases 'round the room
(5thf)                        
She has ice skates and legs that fit right in
                                       
She's wicked to all the beaming dreamers
         
Who'll later boast of an evening
                                   
By her fiery side


                          
Oh but to be, I'd like to be, please let me be, oh let me be

I'd like to be
                (4thf)
My older sister


                 
And in her black gymnastic tights
She runs into some elastic nights
  
Sophisticated sister sings for the
Soldiers of the soccer team
                   
Their silver I.D.'s and sororities
They tinker with love in their Model T's
     
Oh lord, won't you let me be her
             
For just one day
                   
She turns everybody's heads
                           
While I wear her last year's threads
                                        
With patches and stitches and a turned up hem

                         
Oh but to be, oh but to be, oh but to be

Just once to be
               
My older sister

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