Intro
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Verse 1
      E                   B7 
The streets are dark and cold tonight 
     E                        E7                     A 
There’s a million different stories on the street tonight 
           E             B7            E 
And they all start out how once upon a time 
     E 
If I wrote them down 
 B7 
One by one 
             E              E7              A 
Would they all have happy endings or a lonely one? 
         E                B7           E 
How they all start out oh once upon a time 
 
Chorus
            A7                                   E 
Once upon a time so long ago it really doesn’t matter 
            A7 
Started with our hopes and dreams 
      B7              E 
And nothing else in mind 
                         A7 
But somehow all those dreams gone by like grains of sand 
                        E 
Running through our fingers 
            A7         B7 
And it all began so long ago 
       E 
Once upon a time 
 
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Verse 2
   E                           B7 
A neon light flickers on my window pane 
          E            E7           A 
For the second time tonight I call home again 
   E                B7           E 
As I think of you somewhere by the sea 
 E             B7 
Lonely people they go their way 
     E                  E7                      A 
And you’re all coffee’d out in some all night café 
  E                    B7              E 
And I’d hear you say, how once upon a time 
 
Chorus
            A7                                   E 
Once upon a time so long ago it really doesn’t matter 
            A7 
Started with our hopes and dreams 
      B7              E 
And nothing else in mind 
                         A7 
But somehow all those dreams gone by like grains of sand 
                        E 
Running through our fingers 
            A7         B7 
And it all began so long ago 
       E 
Once upon a time