Second-Hand Songs
Copyright 1998 Jonathan Turner

G                        C
Scanning channels on the radio

D                            G    Em
I hear what's hip and what's new

                     C         Am
I don't pay too much attention

                         D
They're not expecting me to

                     C
You are not meant to listen

D                     G    Em
You are just meant to hear

                  Am                           D
Just get into the beat, just keep tapping your feet

                   G
And forget it next year.

Chorus
I sing secondhand songs, tunes polished by time
The lyrics aren't fancy, they don't always rhyme
The chords are all simple, my voice may not be strong
But I've learned joy and peace, love and sorrow and grief singing secondhand songs

There are songs you can't dance to
Songs that haven't got drums
Songs that last seven minutes
Songs that every child hums 
There are songs where you listen
Not just lie back and hear
There are songs for the singing, our voices all ringing
With laughter and tears

CHORUS

So we gather 'round campfires
And in living rooms too
And we don't quit our day jobs
We're not hip and not new
We don't expect to be famous
We know we can't right all wrongs
But if we touch some hearts then we're doing our part
With our second-hand songs

CHORUS (We sing ...)