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[Verse 1]
EOne hot summer many years ago EMy next door neighbour was a man named Joe AI saw him one bright nightstanding under a tree BI thought he was there just taking a pee EBut then he turned around and said to me A"Listen to those cicadas Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda , yadda"
[Verse 2]
EI said to Joe "I can't hear a word you say Ethose cicadas are singing like the end of days" AJoe turned to me and then he said B"Listen with your chest and not with your head"
[Chorus]
E"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" E"Give your ears a rest and listent with your chest" A"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" B"Give your ears a rest and listent with your chest" EGive your ears a rest and listen, really listen with your chest."
[Verse 3]
EI travelled the world for many years ESearching for the one but finding oceans of tears AAnd every time I couldn't get free BI remembered old Joe standing under that tree saying
[Chorus]
E"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" E"Give your ears a rest and listent with your chest" A"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" B"Give your ears a rest and listent with your chest" E"Give your ears a rest and listen, really listen with your chest."
[Verse 4]
ENow many years later with a family of my own AI heard that Joe was in a nursing home BMy kids and I visited him there and what did we see EOld Joe was standing underneath a tree EJoe looked at me and said with zest E"You've been listening with your chest"
[Chorus]
E"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" A"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" B"Give your ears a rest and listen with your chest" E"Give your ears a rest and listen, really listen, with your chest" E A B E