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1.
Dm F
People die in the strangest places
Dm F
People die in the strangest ways
Dm F
People die in a hundred and fifty years
Eb Edim
Or a hundred and fifty days
2.
Dm F
People die when they least expect it
Dm F
People die like they planned all along
Dm F
People die for ideas they believe to be right
Eb Edim
People die because they were wrong
3.
Bb F
People die in the strangest places
Bb F
People die at the strangest times
Bb F
People die 'cause they're totally innocent
Eb Edim
People die 'cause of their crimes
4.
Eb F
People die when they're at their sharpest
Eb F
People die when they're in a haze
Eb F
People die in the strangest places
Eb F
People die in the strangest ways2012 Dec 25 - Project Blue Book Video
1997 Feb 27 - MIDI primitive arrangement ( 1m25s 4K)
For many years after World War II, the United States Air Force had a public task force investigating reports of extraterrestrial sightings and contacts. The task force report was called Project Blue Book. This is about a different blue book.
1. D C A Dm G I've got a blue "U" book. F G I wish you would take a look, F Em But only if you're int'rested Dm C In what it has to say Dm Concerning what you ask about. Em You can look with honest doubt, F But it will never help you out G If you explain it all away.
2.
Am
You can never realize
G
What you won't internalize.
F
No surprise will come from
Em
Anything you read
Dm
You can argue and debate
Em
And never have to correlate
F
Your life with what it has to state
G
On human need.
3.
Am
You can choose to worry, or
G
Choose not to worry anymore,
F
Listen to or just ignore
Em
Your better side.
Dm
No one else can make your choice.
Em
Only you can use your voice
F
For singing love or making noises
G
Out of pride.
4.
Am
Give the words a second glance.
G
Don't be afraid to take a chance.
F
You might find you like to dance
Em
Instead of sit.
Dm
But no one else can dance for you,
Em
Or love in quite the way you do.
F
And the blue "U" book
G
is for the benefit
F G C
of You
1.
Em D
Every time I think about
C
what I believe...
Em B
I start to won-der...
Em D
How out of uni-ty
C
Came all this multiplicity
Em B
:| all rent a-sun-der... |:
2.
Em
From Infinite Eternity
D
How Time and Space
began to be,
C
How GOD Who is
C7
all that can be
D C B
Can be Us... right... now...
3.
Em D
Every time I think about
C
what I believe...
Em B
:| I start to won-der... |:—Sir Henry Bate Dudley
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
—Socrates
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
—Albert Einstein
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #2
1.
G D
Oh the way to God is always up,
C G
But you might be up-side-down.
G D
That's why his beatific smile
C D
Appears to you a frown.
C D G
You've almost reached the surface,
Am D
But you stop for fear you'll drown.
G D
:| Oh the way to God is always up,
C G
But you might be upside down. |:
2.
G D
Oh the way to God is always in,
C G
But you might be in-side-out.
G D
That's why his reassurances
C D
Induce in you such doubt.
C D G
The still small voice you can't quite hear
Am D
Is God's tremendous SHOUT!
G D
:| Oh the way to God is always in,
C G
But you might be inside out. |:
3.
G D
Oh it takes a million years to know
C G
The One Who Lives Within.
G D
You reach the shores of Paradise
C D
On the day that you begin.
C D G
A billion perfect worlds dance on
Am D
The apex of a pin.
G D
:| Oh it takes a million years to know
C G
The One Who Lives Within. |:
4.
G D
The way to God is yours to choose,
C G
Don't let your will be weak.
G D
'Cause then, despite His brilliant light,
C D
Your outlook will stay bleak.
C D G
You'll sail on holy waters,
Am D
But you'll think you're up a creek.
G D
:| The way to God is yours to choose,
C G
Don't let your will be weak. |:
5. [SING FAST!]
G D
Oh the way to heaven is always leavened
C G
With love and peace of mind.
G D
And I heard a rumor if you don't have humor
C D
That you might get left behind.
C D G
Maybe you really don't see it, or
Am D
You're just choosing to be blind,
G D
:| But the way to heaven is always leavened
C G
With love and peace of mind. |: [Repeat 1st verse]1997 Jan 30: An
expanded version of the MIDI tune (~2.5K, 26 sec), adding some more instruments, just for fun. Full-scale orchestration with lead vocal and background chorus will come later….
2001 Nov 26: An
even more expanded version of the MIDI tune (~14K, 2:26), all verses, adding many more instruments, and having much more fun. This MIDI was previously only available on the no-longer-unavailable (and now-obsolete) UB Comix diskette. Still haven't actually recorded the song itself yet&hellp;.
2016 Aug 25: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #3
2016 Dec 9: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #15.

