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"THE JOHN PRINE ANTHOLOGY:GREAT DAYS" Album

(John Prine)

C G F C
When I woke up this morning, things were lookin' bad

F C G7 C
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had

G F C F C
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won

G F
And it was twelve o'clock before I realized

C F C
That I was havin' .. no fun

G C F G7 C
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality

F C
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile

G7 C
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while

F C
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone

G F C F C F C F C
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun

C G
Last time I checked my bankroll,

F C
It was gettin' thin

F C
Sometimes it seems like the bottom

G7 C
Is the only place I've been

G F C F C
I Chased a rainbow down a one-way street... dead end

G F C F C
And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen

C G F C
Well, I sat down in my closet with all my overalls

F C
Tryin' to get away

G7 C
From all the ears inside my walls

G F
I dreamed the police heard

C F C
Everything I thought... what then?

G
Well I went to court

F C F C
And the judge's name was Hoffman

G C F G7 C
Ah but fortunately I have the key to escape reality

F C
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile

G7 C
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while

F C
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone

G F C
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun

F C F C F C
Well done, hot dog bun, my sister's a nun

G C
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol

D7 G
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal

Well she pressed her chest against me

C
About the time the juke box broke

D7
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck

G
And these are the words she spoke

G
Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper

D7 G
Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

D7 G
Try an find Jesus on your own

G C
Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive

D7 G
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve

C
Well, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-coo

D7 G
Yeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do

G C
Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place

D7 G
When just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face

I said "You must know the answer."

C
"She said, "No but I'll give it a try."

D7
And to this very day we've been livin' our way

G
And here is the reason why

G
We blew up our T.V. threw away our paper

D7 G
Went to the country, built us a home

Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches

D7 G
They all found Jesus on their own

C Dm G C Dm G

Cmaj7 C F C G

C Dm G
We had an apartment in the city,

C Dm G
Me and Loretta liked living there.

Cmaj7 C F
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,

C G
A life of their own left us alone.

C Dm G
John and Linda live in Omaha,

C Dm G
And Joe is somewhere on the road.

Cmaj7 F
We lost Davy in the Korean war,

C G
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Bb C
Ya know that old trees just grow stronger,

Bb C
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.

Em F
Old people just grow lonesome

C G C
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

C Dm G C Dm G

Cmaj7 C F C G

C Dm G
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,

C Dm G
She sits and stares through the back door screen.

Cmaj7 C F
And all the news just repeats itself

C G
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.

C Dm G
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,

C Dm G
We worked together at the factory.

Cmaj7 F
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"

C G
Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do.

C Dm G
So if you're walking down the street sometime

C Dm G
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,

Cmaj7 C F
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare

C G C
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

F
Sam Stone came home,

Bb
To his wife and family

C7 F
After serving in the conflict overseas.

And the time that he served,

Bb
Had shattered all his nerves,

C7 F Bb F
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.

Bbmaj7
But the morhpine eased the pain,

And the grass grew round his brain,

G7 C7
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,

G7 C7
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

F Gm
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,

Bb C7
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.

F
Little pitchers have big ears,

Dm
Don't stop to count the years,

G7 C7
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

F
Mmm....

F
Sam Stone's welcome home

Bb
Didn't last too long.

C7 F
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime

And Sammy took to stealing

Bb
When he got that empty feeling

C7 Bb C7 F Bb F
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.

Bbmaj7
And the gold rolled through his veins

Like a thousand railroad trains,

G7 C7
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,

G7 c7
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

F
Sam Stone was alone

Bb
When he popped his last balloon,

C7 F
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair.

Well, he played his last request,

Bb
While the room smelled just like death,

C7 F Bb F
With an overdose hovering in the air.

Bbmaj7
But life had lost it's fun,

There was nothing to be done,

G7 C7
But trade his house that he bought on the GI Bill,

G7 C7
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill.

D G D
When I was a child my family would travel

A7 D
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

G D
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered

A7 D
So many times that my memories are worn.

D G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

A7 D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

G D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

A7 D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

D G D
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

A7 D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

G D
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols

A7 D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

D G D A7 D

D G D
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

A7 D
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

G D
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

A7 D
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

D G D
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River

A7 D
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

G D
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'

A7 D
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

C F C
Small town, bright lights, Saturday night,

C D7 G7
Pinballs and Pool halls flashing their lights.

C F C
Making change behind the counter in a penny arcade

G7 C
Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray

(Spoken:) Lydia

F C
Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat

C D7 G7
Behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat.

C F C
She read romance magazines up in her room

C G7 C
And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon.

C7 F C
But dreaming just comes natural

G7 C
Like the first breath from a baby,

C7 F C
Like sunshine feeding daisies,

G7 C F C F
Like the love hidden deep in your heart.

C F C
Bunk beds, shaved heads, Saturday night,

D7 G7
A warehouse of strangers with sixty watt lights.

C F C
Staring through the ceiling, just wanting to be

G7 C
Lay one of too many, a young PFC:

(Spoken:) Donald

F C
There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said.

D7 G7
Strangers had forced him to live in his head.

C F C
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes

G7 C
After midnight in the stillness of the barracks latrine.

C F C
Hot love, cold love, no love at all.

D7 G7
A portrait of guilt is hung on the wall.

C F C
Nothing is wrong, nothing is right.

G7 C
Donald and Lydia made love that night.

(Spoken:) Love

C F C
The made love in the mountains, they made love in the streams,

D7 G7
They made love in the valleys, they made love in their dreams.

C F C
But when they were finished there was nothing to say,

G7 C
'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away.

C F
(Repeat and Fade)

G G7
Black faces pressed against the glass

C G
Where rain has pressed it's weight

G
Wind blown scarves in top down cars

A7 D7
All share one western trait

C D G
Sadness leaks through tear-stained cheeks

B7 C
From winos to dime-store Jews

C/B G
Probably don't know they give me

D7 G
These late John Garfield blues

C G C G C G

G G7
Midnight fell on Franklin Street

C G
And the lamppost bulbs were broke

G
For the life of me, I could not see

A7 D7
But I heard a brand new joke

C D G
Two men were standing upon a bridge

B7 C
One jumped and screamed you lose

C/B G
And just left the odd man holding

D7 G
Those late John Garfield blues

C G C G C G

D
An old man sleeps with his conscience at night

G
A young kid sleeps with his dreams

A7
While the mentally ill sit perfectly still

D7
And live through life's in-betweens

G G7
I'm going away to the last resort

C G
In week or two real soon

G
Where the fish don't bite but once a night

A7 D7
By the cold light of the moon

C D G
The horses scream- the nightmares dream

B7 C
And the dead men all wear shoes

C/B G
'Cause everybody's dancin'

D7 G
Those late John Garfield blues

C D G C D G

E A

A
Oh,I get drunk most every night

D
Seems like all we do is fight

A E
The more I drink the less I feel blue

A
Sometimes I feel like an awful fool

D
Spending my life on an old bar stool

A E A
And yes, I guess they oughta name a drink after you

(spoken: Bloody Mary)

E D E A

A
If this date were to be our last

D
I'd never sit down this glass

A E
It'd take all the booze in the world to forget you

A
You've left my heart a vacant lot

D
I'll fill it with another shot

A E A
And yes, I guess they oughta name a drink after you

(spoken: Near Beer)

E D E A

A
Looks like I had my fill

D
Guess I better pay my bill

A E
When I started out I only meant to have a few

A
Someone just said that you left town

D
I better get a double round

A E A
And yes, I guess they oughta name a drink after you

A E A
Yes, I guess they oughta name a drink after you

E A

C
I knew a girl who was almost a lady

F C
She had a way with all the men in her life

G
Every inch of her blossomed in beauty

F C
She was born on the Fourth of July

C
Well, she lived in an aluminum house trailer

F C
And she worked in a juke-box saloon

G
And she spent all the money I'd give her

F C
Just to see the ol' man in the moon

C
I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory

F C
And awake in the Dawn's early light

F C
But much to my surprise when I opened my eyes

G C
I was a victim of the great compromise

C
Well, we'd go out on Saturday evening

F C
To the Drive-in on Route Forty One

G
And it was there that I first suspected

F C
That she was doin' what she'd already done

C
She said "Johnny want you get me some popcorn"

F C
And she knew I had to walk pretty far

G
And as soon as I passed through the moonlight

F C
She hopped into a foreign sports car

C
Well you know, I could'a beat up that fella

F C
But it was her that had hopped in to his car

G
As many times as I'd fought to protect her

F C
But this time she was goin' too far

C
And some folks they call me a coward

F C
'Cause I left her at the Drive-in that night

G
But I'd druther have names thrown at me

F C
Than to fight for a thing that ain't right

C
Well, she writes all the fellas love letters

F C
Sayin' greetings come and see me real soon

G
And they go and line up in the bar-room

F C
To spend a night in that sick woman's room

C
But sometimes I get awful lonesome

F C
And I wish she were my girl instead

G
But she won't let me live with her

F C
And she makes me live in my head

C
I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory

F C
And awake in the Dawn's early light

F C
But much to my surprise when I opened my eyes

G C F C
I was a victim of the great compromise

G
I got kicked off Noah's Ark

C G
I turn my cheek to unkind remarks

D7
There was two of everything but one of me

G
And when the rains came tumbling down

C G
I held my breath and I stood my ground

D7 C G
And I watched that ship go sailing out to seee-ea

C
Take it back. Take it back.

G
Oh no, you can't say that

D7
All of my friends are not dead or in jail

G
Through rock and through stone

C G
The black wind still moans

D7 C G
Sweet Revenge, Sweet Revenge without fail

G
I caught an aisle seat on a plane

C G
And drove an English teacher half insane

D7
Making up jokes about bicycle spokes and red balloons

G
So I called up my local deejay

C G
And he didn't have alot to say

D7 C G
But the radio has learned all of my favorite tunes

G
The white meat is on the run

C G
And the dark meat is far too done

D7
And the milkman left me a note yesterday

G
Get out of this town by Noon

C G
You're coming on way too soon

D7 C G
And besides that we never liked you anyway

G D7
Sweet Revenge, Sweet Revenge

C G
Will prevail without fail

D
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D G
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers

D A
Walked in the kitchen and died

D G
And oh what a feeling when my soul went through the ceiling

A D
And on up into heaven I did rise

G D
When I got there they did say John it happened this-a-way

A
You slipped upon the floor and hit your head

D G D
And all the angels say just before you passed away

A D
These are the very last words that you said

G D
(But) Please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground

A
No, I'd 'druther have 'em cut me up and pass me all around

D
Throw my brains in a hurricane

G D
And the blind can have my eyes

G D
And the deaf can take both of my ears

A D
If they don't mind the size

G D A D

D G D
Give my stomach to Milwakee if they run out of beer

E7 A7
Put my socks in a cedar box just get 'em out'a here

D
Venus de Milo can have my arms

G D
Look out! I've got your nose

G D
Sell my heart to the junk man

A7 D
And give my love to Rose

D G D E7 A7

D G D

G D A7 D

D
Give my feet to the foot-loose

G D
Careless, fancy-free

Give my knees to the needy

E7 A7
Don't pull that stuff on me

D G D
Hand me down my walkin' cane, it's a sin to tell a lie

G D A D
Send my mouth way down south and kiss my ass good-bye

G C G D7 G

G C
It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good

G D7
We had turkey and pistols carved out of wood

G C
And I dream of her always even when I don't dream

G D G
Her name's on my tongue and her blood's in my stream

D C G
Wait awhile eternity

C G D
Old Mother Nature's got nothing on me

G C
Come to me. Run to me. Come to me now.

G D G
We're rolling my sweetheart. We're flowing by God.

G C G D7

G C D G

G C
She reminds me of a chess game with someone I admire

G D7
Or a picnic in the rain after a paririe fire

G C
Her heart is a big as this whole damn jail

G D G
And she's sweeter than saccharine at a drug store sale

G C G D7

G C D G

G C
The search light in the big yard swings 'round with the gun

G D7
And spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun

G C
It's Christmas in prison There'll be music tonight

G D G
I'll probably get homesick I love you. Good Night.

G C G
Dear Abby, Dear Abby, my feet are too long

G A7 D7
My hair's falling out and my rights are all wrong

G C G
My friends they all tell me, that'a no friends at all

G D G
Won't you write me a letter, won't you give me a call

C D G
Signed Bewildered

G C G
Bewildered, Bewildered you have no complaint

A7 D7
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't

G C G
So listen up buster and listen up good

D G
Stop wishin' for bad luck and knockin' on wood

C D G

G C G
Dear Abby, Dear Abby, my fountain pen leaks

A7 D7
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks

G C G
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed

D G
If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead

C D G
Signed Unhappy

G C G
Unhappy, Unhappy, you have no complaint

A7 D7
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't

G C G
So listen up buster and listen up good

D G
Stop wishin' for bad luck and knockin' on wood

C D G

G C G
Dear Abby, Dear Abby, you won't believe this

A7 D7
But my stomache makes noises whenever I kiss

G C G
My girlfriend tells me it's all in my head

D G
But my stomache tells me to write you instead

C D G
Signed Noisemaker.

G C G
Noisemaker, Noisemaker, you have no complaint ...

A7 D7
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't

G C G
So listen up buster and listen up good

D G
Stop wishin' for bad luck and knockin' on wood

C D G

G C G
Dear Abby, Dear Abby, well I never thought

A7 D7
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught

G C G
We were sittin' in the back seat just shootin' the breeze

D G
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees

C D G
Signed Just Married

G C G
Just Married, Just Married, you have no complaint ...

A7 D7
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't

G C G
So listen up buster and listen up good

D G
Stop wishin' for bad luck and knockin' on wood

C D G
Signed Dear Abby

C F C
Feelings are strange especially when they come true

G C
And I had a feeling that you'd be leaving soon

F C
So I tried to rearrange all my emotions

G C
But it seems the same no matter what I do

C F C
Blue umbrella rest upon my shoulder

G C
Hide the pain while the rain makes up my mind

F C
Well, my feet are wet from thinking this thing over

F G
And it's been so long since I felt the warm sunshine

F G C
Just give me one good reason

F G C
And I promise I won't ask you anymore

F G C
Just give me one extra season

G C
So I can figure out the other four

F G C

G C

C F C
Dayime makes me wonder why you left me

G C
Nighttime makes me wonder what I said

F C
Next time are the words I'd like to plan on

G C
But, last time was the only thing you said

G C

G C D G

G
You can't live together

C
You can't live alone

D
Considering the weather

G
Oh, my, how you've grown

From the men in the factories

C
To the wild kangaroo

D
Like those birds of a feather

They're gathering together

G
And feeling exactly like you

G
They got mesmerized by lullabies

C
And limbo danced in pairs

D
Please lock that door

It don't make much sense that common sense

G
Don't make no sense no more.

C D G
Just between you and me

C G D G
It's like... pulling when you ought to be shovin'

C G D G
Like........ a nun with her head in the oven

C G D G
Please...... don't tell me that this really wasn't nothing

G C D G

G
One of these days

C
One of these nights

D
You'll take off your hat

G
And they'll read you your rights

You'll wanna get high

C
Everytime you feel low

D
Hey, Queen Isabella

Stay away from that fella

G
He'll just get you into trouble, you know?

G
But they came here by boats

C
And they came here by plane

D
They blistered their hands

G
And they burned out their brain

All dreaming a dream

C
That'll never come true

D
Hey, don't give me no trouble

Or I'll call up my double

G
We'll play piggy-in-the-middle with you

G
You'll get mesmerized by alibis

C
And limbo dance in pairs

D
Please lock that door

It don't make much sense that common sense

G
Don't make no sense no more.

D
It don't make much sense that common sense

G
Don't make no sense no more.

F C G C

C
The last time that I saw her

F A7 D7
She was standing in the rain

G
With her overcoat under her arm

C
Leaning on a horsehead cane

She said "Carl, take all the money"

F A7 D7
She called everybody Carl

G
My spirit's broke

My mind's a joke,

C
And getting up's real hard.

F
Don't you know her when you see her?

C F
She grew up in your backyard

Come back to us

C G C
Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard

F C G C

C
Selling Bibles at the airports

F A7 D7
Buying quayludes on the phone

G
Hey, you talk about a paper route

C
She's a shut-in without a home

God save her, please

F A7 D7
She's nailed her knees to some drugstore parking lot

G
Hey, Mr. Brown turn the volume down

C
I believe this evening's shot

C
Can't you picture her next Thursday?

F A7 D7
Can you picture her at all?

G
In the Hotel Boulderado

C
At the dark end of the hall

I gotta shake myself and wonder

F A7 D7
Why she even bothers me

G
For if heartaches were commercials

C
We'd all be on T.V.

F
Don't you know her when you see her?

C F
She grew up in your backyard

Come back to us

C G C
Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard

F
Come back to us

C G C G C
Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard

Em
I wish, I hope, I wonder

A
Where you're at sometimes

Em
Is your back against the wall?

A
Or just across the line

Em
Have you been standing in the rain

A
Reciting nursery rhymes

Em A
Trying to recall some long lost kind of peace of mind

D
Peace of mind

G
Try spending the night sometime

D
All alone in a frozen room

A
Afterneath you've lain

Em
Your saddle in the rain

Em
I dreamed they locked God up

A
Down in my basement

Em
And he waited there for me

A
To have this accident

Em
So he could drink my wine

A
And eat me like a sacrament

Em
And I just stood there like I do

A
Then I came and went

D
I came and went

G
Like a bird in a foreign sky

D
Couldn't even say goodbye

A
Or come and share the pain

Em
My Saddle's in the rain.

G d
La la la la la la la la la

C B
La la la la la la la la la

G D
La la la la la la la la la

C B
La la la la la la la la la

Em
I saw a friend who doesn't know

A
If I'm his friend just yet

Em
His eyes and mouth were widely open

A
And his jaw was set

Em
Like he'd fell off a cliff

A
And hadn't hit the bottom yet

Em
I wish he wouldn't pull those things on me

A
Without a net

D
Without a net

G
I had him up to the house one time

D
And we was having a real good time

A
Then he went and lain

Em
His saddle in the rain

G D
La la la la la la la la la

C B
La la la la la la la la la

G D
La la la la la la la la la

C B
La la la la la la la la la

Em A
In a laundromat not too far from the Alamo

Em A
Sits a girl who stole my records very long ago

Em A
And she wishes, wants and washes out those dirty clothers

Em A
As she shuts her eyes and dreams about her One-Eyed Joe

D
One-Eyed Joe

G
Car parked on a dirty road

D
Heaven knows the load she pulled

A
Couldn't take the strain

Em
A saddle in the rain

C F
There's a rainbow of babies

G C
Draped over the graveyard

F C
Where all the dead sailors

G
Wait for their brides

C
And the cold bitter snow

F C
Has strangled each grassblade

F C
Where the salt from their tears

G C
Washed out with the tide

F G
And I smiled on the Wabash

C
The last time I passed it

F C
Yes, I gave here a wink

G
From the passenger side

C
And my foot fell asleep

F C
As I swallowed my candy

F C G C
Knowing he was in Heaven before he died

C F
Now the harbor's on fire

G C
With the dreams and desires

F C
Of a thousand young poets

G
Who failed 'cause they tried

C
For a rhyme without reason

F C
Floats down to the bottom

F C
Where the scavengers eat 'em

G C
And wash in with the tide

C F
The sun can play tricks

G C
With your eyes on the highway

F C
The moon can lay sideways

G
Till the ocean stands still

C
But a person can't tell

F C
His best friend he loves him

F C
Till time has stopped breathing

G C
You're alone on the hill

G C G

C G D

G C G D G

G C G
I been thinking lately about the people I meet

C G D
The carwash on the corner and the hole in the street

G C
The way my ankles hurt with shoes on my feet

G D G
And I'm wondering if I'm gonna see tomorrow

G C G
Father forgive us for what we must do

C G D
You forgive us we'll forget you

G C
We'll forgive each other till we both turn blue

G D G
Then we'll whistle and go fishing in Heaven

G C G

C G D

G C G D G

G C G
I was in the army but I never dug a trench

C G D
I used to bust my knuckles on a monkey wrench

G C
Then I'd go to town and drink and give the girls a pinch

G D G
But I don't think they ever even noticed me

D
Fish and whistle

Whistle and fish

G
Eat every thing that they put on your dish

C G
And when we get through we'll make a big wish

A7 D7
That we never have to do this again

Again?

Again???

G C G
On my very first job I said "thank you" and "please"

C G D
They made me scrub a parking lot down on my knees

G C
Then I got fired for being scared of bees

G D G
And they only give me fifty cents and hour

G C G

C G D

G C G D G

D
Fish and whistle

Whistle and fish

G
Eat every thing that they put on your dish

C G
And when we get through we'll make a big wish

A7 D7
That we never have to do this again

Again?

Again???

G D G
We'll whistle and go fishing in Heaven

G C G

C G D

G C G D G

F Bb F C

F Bb F C F

F
Well I know a guy that's got a lot to lose,

Bb
He's a pretty nice fella, kinda confused.

F
He's got muscles in his head ain't never been used,

C
He thinks he owns half of this town.

F
Starts drinkin' heavy, gets a big red nose,

Bb
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose

F
Then he takes her out to dinner, buys her new clothes,

C F
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

F
That's the way that the world goes 'round,

Bb
You're up one day, the next you're down,

F
It's half inch of water, but you think you're gonna drown,

C F
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

F Bb F C

F Bb F C F

F
I was sittin' in the bathtub, a-countin' my toes,

Bb
When the radiator broke, the water all froze.

F
I got stuck in the ice, without my clothes,

C
Naked as the eyes of a clown.

F
I was crying those ice cubes, hoping I'd croak,

Bb
When the sun came through the window, the ice all broke.

F
I stood up and laughed; I thought it was a joke,

C F
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

F Bb F C

F Bb F C F

C F
That's the way that the world goes 'round,

C F
That's the way that the world ......goes 'round.

F Bb F C F

A
My heart's in the ice house

Come hill or come valley

D
Like a long ago Sunday when I walked through the alley

A E7
On a cold winter's morning to a church house

A
Just to shovel some snow

I heard sirens on the train track

Howl naked gettin' nuder

D
An alter boy's been hit by a local commuter

A E7
Just from walking with his back turned to the train

A A7
That was comming so slow

D
You can gaze out the window

Get mad and get madder

A
Throw you hands in the air Say "What does it matter?"

E7
But it don't do no good to get angry

A A7
So help me I know

D
For a heart stained in anger

Grows weak and grows bitter

A
You become your own prisoner

E7
As you watch yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap

A
Of your very own chain of sorrow.

A D A E A

A
I been brought down to zero

Pulled out and put back there

D
I sat on the park bench kissed the girl with the black hair

A E7
And my head shouted down to my heart

A
You better look out below.

Hey, it ain't such a long drop

Don't stammer. Don't stutter

D
From the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter

A E7
And you carry those bruises to remind you

A A7
Wherever you go.

A
My heart's in the ice house

Come hill or come valley

D
Like a long ago Sunday when I walked through the alley

A E7
On a cold winter's morning to a church house

A
Just to shovel some snow

I heard sirens on the train track

Howl naked gettin' nuder

D
An alter boy's been hit by a local commuter

A E7
Just from walking with his back turned to the train

A A7
That was comming so slow

A D A E A

G C D7 G

G C
The movie wasn't really doing do hot

D7 G
Said the new producer to the old big shot

C
It's dying on the edge of the Great Midwest

D7 G
Sabu must tour or forever rest

G
Hey look Ma here comes the elephant boy

C
Bundled all up in his corduroy

D7
Headed down south towards Illinois

G
From the jungles of East St. Paul

G C
His manager sat in the office alone

D7 G
Staring at the numbers on the telephone

C
Wondering how a man could send a child actor

D7 G
To visit in the land of the wind chill factor

G C D7 G

G C
Sabu was sad the whole tour stunk

D7 G
The airlines lost the elephant's trunk

C
The roadie got the rabies, the scabies and the flu

D7 G
They was low on morale but they was high on --

D7 G
From the jungles of East St. Paul

E
February morning, my car won't start today

I turned the (tacet)key at 8:03 and the battery passed away

E
Inside a' my automobile

I want my automobile

B7 E
I want to drive it all around this world

E
Bride's gettin' married in the Springtime

Widow's gettin married in the Fall

I(tacet) got married in high school

Or I wouldn't of got married at all

E
I'd be drivin' my automobile

Be drivin' my automobile

B7 E
I wanna drive it all around this world

E
Everybody said to the new groom

Groom, what ya gonna be

I s(tacet)aid I'm gonna be a symphony

Just as soon as I find a key

E
To my automobile

I want my automobile

B7 e
All around this world

Spoken: let's take a ride

E A B7 E

E
Columbus sailed the ocean

Moses parted the sea

D(tacet)olores left me yesterday

Well, I think she took the key

E
To my automobile

I want my automobile

B7 E
Wanta drive it all around this world

E
Now I held a little bitty baby

I held a woman all night

W(tacet)henever I get the hiccups

I hold my breath til my head gets light

E
Then I drive my automobile

Yeah I drive my automobile

I drive my automobile

B7 E
I'm want to drive it all around this world

E A B7 E

E
February morning, my car won't start today

Yeah, I tu(tacet)rned the key at 8:03

And the battery passed away

E
Inside a' my automobile

I'm drivin' my automobile

Wanna my automobile

B7 E
Wanna drive it all around this world Go on.

Spoken:

E
It is a beautiful day for a ride

Hey, get your head down I can't see anything

Someone give me a cigarette I don't want to take my hands off the wheel

We ought to take the air filter off this sucker.

So we can see what it will really do.

Uh oh, it looks to me like a HOS-PITAL Zone

Everybody get quiet. Shhhhhhhh.

Don't wake the dead up.

We're almost out. Hang on.

Uh Oh here we go.

Well, you can just hold it until we get to the next town.

A
Leaves were falling ..Just like embers

D
In colors red and gold they set us on fire

A
Burning just like a moonbeam ..in our eyes

E
Somebody said they saw me

D
Swinging the world by the tail

A
Bouncing over a white cloud.

E A
Killing the Blues

A
I am guilty of something

D
I hope you never do because there is nothing

A
Sadder than losing .. yourself in love

A D A

A
Now, you ask me .. Just to leave you

D
To go out on my own and get what I need to

A
You want me to find ..what I've already had

E D A E A

G C G C G C G

G
Her Father was a failure

C
Her Mother was a comfort

G
To a doctor and lawyer and Indian Chief.

The shirt ran out of buttons

C
He lost all his marbles at a baseball game

G
And they went on Relief.

C G
The bank took away their diplomas

C G
They locked them up inside of the chest

C G
And she moved away to Oklahoma

A D
And got a tatoo on the side of her breast

G
"God-Damn, My socks are still hard"

C
From lying on the sofa on the night she was over

G
In my backyard

C
Yeah, We was shooting the breeze out amongst the trees

G
When a shot rang low

D G
And left her standing down by the side of the road

D G
Down by the side of the road

G C
Father have mercy, Whoo Whoo

Get her a nurse please

G
She's almost alone

C G
I saw her hand reaching out for the telephone

C G
We rather see her locked up inside a home

D G
Than see her standing down by the side of the road

D G
Down by the side of the road

C G
Headlights flashing on her skirt in the wind.

C G
Yonder comes a truck it drove by two men.

C G D G
Shotgun man leaned out and said do you want to take a ride?

A D
Out in the pale moonlight Light. light Light Lie Lie Lie lie

G
Too long in the hot sun

C G
She could've be Miss Wisconsin a long time ago

C G
Spent to much time inside of the early show

C G
We'd bought her a ticket but she didn't want to go

D G
She was standing down by the side of the road

D G
Down by the side of the road

C G
Headlights flashing, caught a skirt in the wind.

C G
Yonder comes a truck it drove by two men.

C G D G
Shotgun man leaned out and said do you want to take a ride?

A D
Out in through the pale moonlight

G
Her Father was a failure

C
Her Mother was a comfort

G
To a doctor and lawyer and Indian Chief.

The shirt made out of buttons

C
He lost all his marbles at a baseball game

G
And they went on Relief.

C G
The bank took away their diplomas

C G
They locked them up inside of the chest

C G
And she moved away to Oklahoma

D
And got a tatoo on the side of her breast

G
God-Damn, My thoughts are still hard.

C
From lying on the sofa on the night she was over

G
In my backyard

C
Yeah, We was shooting the breeze out amongst the trees

G
When a shot rang low

D G
And left her standing down by the side of the road

D G
Down by the side of the road

E
Jehosaphat the mongrel cat

A
Jumped off the roof today

E
Some would say he fell but I could tell

B7 E
He did himself away

His eyes weren't bright like they were the night

A
We played checkers on the train

E
God bless his soul he was a tootsie roll

B7 E
But he's a dead man just the same

A E
We are living in the future

A E
I'll tell you how I know

A E
I read it in the paper

B7 E
Fifteen years ago

A E
We're all driving rocket ships

A E
And talking with our minds

A E
And wearing turquoise jewelry

B7 E
And standing in soup lines

B7 E
We're standing in soup lines

E
Jake the barber's lonely daughter

A
Went down to her daddy's shop

E
She plugged herself to the barber pole

B7 E
And took a little off the top

E
Pressure on the left, Pressure on the right

A
Pressure in the middle of the hole

E
I'm goin' to Maine on a forty foot crane

B7 E
I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole

E A E

B7 E

E A E

B7 E

E
Old Sarah Brown sells tickets down

A
At the all night picture show

E
Where they grind out sex and they rate it with an "X"

B7 E
Just to make a young man's pants grow

E
No tops no bottoms just hands and feet

Screaming the posters out on the street

Strangling the curious and the weak

B7 E
Hell, we give'em what they want to see-O.

B7 E
We give'em what they want to see.

B7 E
We're standing in soup lines

E A E

B7 E

E A E

B7 E

D
Well, it's the same old song

G D
Boy meets girl and girl meets boy - They carry on

G D
They close their eyes and kiss until the - world is gone

A
Oh yes, it's true

G D
It's happening to you

D
You know what they say

G D
They pledge their love forever then they - add a day

G D
They hold their hands so tight in the fear that one might stray

A
Oh yes, it's true

G D
It's happening to you

G D
I loved her. She loved me too

G D A
We had a lot of love. Now it's all through

D
And for awhile

G D
Their hearts beat as one as they match each other - smile for smile

G D
They dance away the night as they praise the others style

A
Oh yes, it's true

G D
It's happening to you

D
Well, it's the same old song

G D
Boy meets girl and girl meets boy - They carry on

G D
They close their eyes and kiss until the - world is gone

A
Oh yes, it's true

G D
It's happening to you

C G D

G
I can hear the wheels of the automobiles

C D G
So far away - just moving along through the drifting snow

G
It's times like these when the temperatures freeze

C D G
I sit alone looking at the world through a storm window

Cm G
And down on the beach - the sandman sleeps

Cm G
Time don't fly - it bounds and leaps

Cm G
And a country band that plays for keeps

D D/C D/B D/A
They play it so slow

G C D
Don't let your baby down

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G
Well, the spirits were high 'til the well went dry

C D G
For so long the raven at my window was only a crow

G
I bought the rights to the inside fights

C D G
And watched a man just beating his hand against a storm window

Cm G
While miles away o'er hills and streams

Cm G
A candle burns - A witch's dreams

Cm G
And silence is golden till it screams

D D/C D/B D/A
Right through your bones

D C G
Storm windows - Gee but I'm getting old

D C D
Storm window - keep away the cold

G C D

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D C G
Storm windows - Gee but I'm getting old

D C D
Storm window - keep away the cold

G
I can hear the wheels of the automobiles

C D G
So far away - just moving along through the drifting snow

G
It's times like these when the temperatures freeze

C D G
I sit alone looking at the world through a storm window

Cm G
And down on the beach - the sandman sleeps

Cm G
Time don't fly - it bounds and leaps

Cm G
And a country band that plays for keeps

D D/C D/B D/A
They play it so slow

G C D
Don't let your baby down

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G D
The rain came down on the tin roof

C D
Hardly a sound was left from the birthday party

C D G D
The kitchen light fell asleep on the bedroom floor

G D
Me and her were talking softer

C D
Than all the time before I lost her

C D G
Picture sat on top of the chest-of-drawers

C D G
One red rose in the Bible

C G D Db C
Pressed between the Holy Alphabet

C D G
Probably wouldn't believe you if you told me

C D G C D G
But what I never knew I never will forget

G D
Rainy nights get dark real early

C D
Her dress was soft and her hair was curly

C D G D
We danced around the table to the old banjo

G D
Rainy nights were made for lovers

C D
We lay there still beneath the covers

C D G
And I ain't never felt like that before

C D G
One red rose in the Bible

C G D Db C
Pressed between the Holy Alphabet

C D G
Probably wouldn't believe you if you told me

C D G
But what I never knew I never will forget

C D G

C G D Db C

C D G

C D G
One red rose in the Bible

C G D Db C
Pressed between the Holy Alphabet

C D G
Probably wouldn't believe you if you told me

C D G
But what I never knew I never will forget

C D G D G
What I never knew I never will forget

G C D G

C
(Tacet)All the snow has turned to water

D G
Christmas day has come and gone

C
Broken toys and faded colors

D G
Are all that's left to linger on

C
(Tacet)I hate graveyards and old pawnshops

D G
For they always bring me tears

G C
Can't forgive the way they rob me

D G
Of my childhoood souvenirs

D G
Memories, they can't be boughten

D G
They can't be won at carnivals for free

D G
Well, it took me years, to get those souvenirs

C D
And I don't know how they slipped away from me

G C D G

C
(Tacet)Broken hearts and dirty windows

D G
Make life difficult to see

C
That's why last night and this morning

D G
Always look the same to me

C
(Tacet)I hate reading old love letters

D G
For they always bring me tears

C
I can't forgive the way they rob me

D G
Of my sweetheart souvenirs

A D
He's just a small fry. A bit too gun shy.

A E
To have his heart touched without a glove

A D
He looks at strangers as potential dangers

A E A
Trying to Steal his aimless love.

D A
Love has no mind. It can't spell unkind

E
It's never seen a heart shaped like a Valentine

A D
For if love knew him. It'd walk up to him

A E A
And introduce him to an aimless love

A D
I been out walking. Kinda pillow talking

A E
To anyone that has the time for me

A D
For there are some folks they think that love chokes.

A E A
It ties and keeps them from being free

D A
Love has no mind. It can't spell unkind

E
It's never seen a heart shaped like a Valentine

A D
For if love knew you. It'd walk up to you

A E A
And introduce you to an aimless love

A D

A E

A D
Do you look at strangers as potential dangers

A E A
Trying to steal your aimless love.

D A
Love has no mind. It can't spell unkind

E
It's never seen a heart shaped like a Valentine

A D
For if love knew you. It'd walk up to you

A E A
And introduce you to an aimless love

A E A E A
And introduce you to an aimless love

C
She's got the mind of a child

F C
And a body peaking over the hill

Well, she would if she could

D7 G G7
And she should but nobody will

F
With her nails painted red

C C/B Am
And her hair so unnaturally curled

F
Well I think that she may be

G C
The oldest baby in the world

C
She's tasted the night life

F C
But it's left her with nothing but hunger

And all the available men

D7 G G7
Seem to think that they want something younger

F
But youth is a costume

C C/B Am
And the beauty within lies unfurled

F
And I think that she may be

G C C7
The oldest baby in the world

F
Fast horses win races

And royal flushes beat aces

C
And everyone's playing to keep

D7
So let's turn out the lights

G C G
And rock that old baby to sleep

C
She loves the sound of the rain

F C
But you know she's still afraid of the thunder

C
She keeps a head full of hope

D7 G G7
And a heart that's so full of wonder

F
She may look like a woman

C C/B Am
But she's still some daddy's little girl

F
And I think that she may be

G C C/B Am
The oldest baby in the world

F
Yes, I think that she may be

G C F C G C
The oldest baby in the world

B E B F#

B E
People who are sad - sometimes they wear a frown

B E
And people who are kings - sometimes they wear a crown

B
But all the people who don't fit

F#
Get the only fun they get

B
From people puttin' people down

E B
People puttin' people down

B E
People without love - sometimes build a fence around

B E
The garden up above - that makes the whole world go 'round

B
But all the people who don't fit

F#
Get the only fun they get

B
From people puttin' people down

E B B7
People puttin' people down

E B F# E F# B
So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

B E
You may love your wife - you may lose your family

B E
You may lose you mind - just to keep your sanity

B
But the people who don't fit

F#
Get the only fun they get

B
From people puttin' people down

E B
People puttin' people down

B E
People that are glad - sometimes they wear a smile

B E
And people without dreams they walk the extra mile

B
But all the people who don't fit

F#
Get the only fun they get

B
From people puttin' people down

E B
People puttin' people down

E B
From people puttin' people down

E B B7
People puttin' people down

E B F# E F# B
So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

G C G

G C G C
In an Appalachian, Greyhound station

G D G
She sits there waiting, in a family way

G C G C
'Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her'

G D G
'Tell all the others, I'll write someday'

G C G
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother

D D7
Kept undercover, like some bad dream

G C G C
While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered

G D G
They run like water, through a mountain stream

G C G C
In a cold and grey town, a nurse say's 'Lay down'

G D G
'This ain't no playground, and this ain't home'

G C G C
Someone's children, out having children

G D G
In a grey stone building, all alone

G C G C

G D G

G C G C
On somewhere else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound

G D G
'She bows her head down, hummin' lullabys

G C G C
'Your daddy never, meant to hurt you ever'

G D G
'He just don't live here, but you've got his eyes'

G D G
Well, they run like water, through a mountain stream

G C G C G C

G C G C
I am an old woman named after my mother

G C D7 G C G
My old man is another child that's grown old

G C G C
If dreams were lightning thunder was desire

G C D7 G C
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

G F C G
Make me an angel that flies from Montgom'ry

F D7 G C
Make me a poster of an old rodeo

G F C G
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

C D7 G C G C G
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

G C G C
When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy

G C G C G
He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man

G C G C
But that was a long time and no matter how I try

G C D7 G C G
The years just flow by like a broken down dam.

G C G C
There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing

G C D7 G C G
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today.

G C G C
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning

G C D7 G C G
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

G C G C
( Repeat and fade)

D G
I just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars

A D
Everytime I sit and look at pictures of used cars

G
She'll turn on her radio and sit down in her chair

A D
And look at me across the room, as if I wasn't there

D G D G
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars

A D
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone

D G D G
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars

A D
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

D G
Something, somewhere, somehow took my Linda by the hand

A D
And secretly decoded our sacred wedding band

G
For when the moon shines down up on our happy, humble home

A D
Her inner space gets tortured by some outer space unknown.

D G A D

D G
Now I ain't seen no saucers 'cept the ones upon the shelf

A D
And if I ever seen one I'd keep it to myself

G
For if there's life out there somewhere beyond this life on earth

A D
Then Linda must have gone out there and got her money's worth.

A D
Yeah, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

G C G
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G
I been a bad boy

I been long gone

C
I been out there

I never phone home

G D
I never gave you not one little clue where I'd been

G
I've been a bad boy again.

G
I got a way of

Fallin' in love

C
With angels that don't shove

G D
You into thinkin' that you are committing a sin

G
I've been a bad boy again.

G C
I've been a bad boy again

G
Now I've been a bad boy again

D
And all the trouble that I'm in

G
Makes me a bad boy again

C
I've been a bad boy again

G
Now I've been a bad boy again

D
And all the trouble that I'm in

G
Makes me a bad boy again

G
I must have walked 'round

In a real fog

C
I was your best friend

Now I'm a real dog

G D
I never thought that now would ever catch up with then

G
I've been a bad boy again.

G
I've been a bad boy

I sung a wrong song

C
I took a left turn

I stayed too long

G D
As you were thinkin' that I wasn't just like all other men

G
I've been a bad boy again.

G C
I've been a bad boy again

G
Now I've been a bad boy again

D
And all the trouble that I'm in

G
Makes me a bad boy again

C
I've been a bad boy again

G
Now I've been a bad boy again

D
And all the trouble that I'm in

G
Makes me a bad boy again

G C D G

G C
You come home late and you come home early

D G
You come on big when you're feeling small

G C
You come home straight and you come home curly

D G
Sometimes you don't come home at all

C
So what in the world's come over you

D G
And what in heaven's name have I done

C
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

D G
You're out there running just to be on the run

G C
Well I got a heart that burns with a fever

D G
And I got a worried and a jealous mind

C
How can a love that'll last forever

D G
Get left so far behind

G C D G

G C
It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow

D G
It's crossed the evil line today

C
Well, how can you ask about tomorrow

D G
We ain't got one word to say

D G
You're out there running just to be on the run

C G

G C D G C G

G
Up in the morning

C
Work like a dog

D
Is better than sitting

C G
Like a bump on a log

Mind all your manners

C
Be quiet as a mouse

D
Someday you'll own a home

C G
That's a big as a house

G
I know a fella

C
He eats like a horse

D
Knocks his old balls

C G
Round the old golf course

You oughta see his wife

C
She's a cute litle dish

D
She smokes like a chimney

C G
And drinks like a fish

G
There's a big old goofy man

C
Dancing with a big old goofy girl

D G
Ooh Baby .. It's a big old goofy world

G
Elvis had a woman

C
With a head like a rock

D
I wished I had a woman

C G
That made my knees knock

She'd sing like an angel

C
And eat like a bird

D
And if I wrote a song

C G
She'd know every single word

G
Kiss a little baby

C
Give the world a smile

D
And if you take an inch

C G
Give 'em back a mile

Cause if you lie like a rug

C
And you don't give a damn

D
You're never gonna be

C G
As happy as a clam

G
I'm sitting in a hotel

C
Trying to write a song

D
My head is just as empty

C G
As the day is long

Why it's clear as a bell

C
I should have gone to school

D
I'd be wise as an owl

C G
Stead of stubborn as a mule.

D G
Ooh Baby .. It's a big old goofy world

G C D C G

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C F
From the Bells of St. Mary

C
To the Count of Monte Cristo

G
Nothing can stop

Nothing can stop

F C
The Sins - of Memphisto

C F C G C
E|---0---------|---0-------|--
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G
Sally used to play with her Hula Hoops

F
Now, she tells her problems to therapy groups

G
Grandpa's on the front lawn staring at a rake

F
Wondering if his marriage was a terrible mistake

G
I'm sitting on the front steps drinking Orange Crush

F
Wondering if it's possible for me to still blush

Uh Huh

C F C
E|---0---------|--
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D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

Oh, Yeah

C G C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--3-1--|--
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D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
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G
A boy on a bike with courderoy slacks

F
Sleeps in the river by the railroad tracks

G
He waits for the whistle on the train to scream

F
So he can close his eyes and begin to dream.

Uh Huh

C F C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--6-5--|--
G|-------------|--
D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

Oh, Yeah

C G C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--3-1--|--
G|-------------|--
D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

C F C G C
E|---0---------|---0-------|--
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G
The hands on his watch spin slowly around

F
With his mind on a bus that goes all over town

G
Looking at the babies and the factories

F
And listening to the music of Mister Squeeze

G
As if by magic or remote control

F
He finds a piece of a puzzle that he missed in his soul

Uh Huh

C F C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--6-5--|--
G|-------------|--
D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

Oh, Yeah

C G C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--3-1--|--
G|-------------|--
D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

G
Adam and Eve and Lucy and Ricky

F
Bit the Big Apple and got a little sticky

G
Esmeralda and the Hunchback of Notre Dame

F
They humped each other like they had no shame

G
They paused as the posed for a Polaroid photo

F
She whispered in his ear

C
"Exactly Odo ... Quasi Modo"

C F C G C
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D|-------------|-----------|--
A|-------------|-----------|--
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G
Sally used to play with her Hula Hoops

F
Now, she tells her problems to therapy groups

Uh Huh

C F C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--6-5--|--
G|-------------|--
D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

Oh, Yeah

C G C
E|---0---------|--
B|-1---1--3-1--|--
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D|-------------|--
A|-------------|--
E|-------------|--

C F C G C
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A D/A A

D/A A E A

A D/A A

D/A A

D/A A E A

A D/A A D/A A
I wish you love - and happiness

E A
I guess I wish - you all the best

D/A A D/A A
I wish you don't - do like I do

E A
And ever fall in love with someone like you

D A
Cause if you feel - just like I did

E
You'd probably walk around the block like a little kid

A D/A A D/A A
But kids don't know - they can only guess

E A
How hard it is - to wish you happiness

A D/A A

D/A A

D/A A E A

D/A A D/A A
I guess that love -is like a Christmas Card

E A
You decorate a tree - you throw it in the yard

D/A A D/A A
It decays and dies -and the snowmen melt

E A
Well, I once knew love I knew how love felt

D A
Yeah I knew love - love knew me

E
And when I walked - love walked with me

A D/A A D/A A
And I got no hate -and I got no pride

E A
Well, I got so much love that I cannot hide

E A
Yeah, I got so much love that I cannot hide

A D/A A

D/A A

D/A A E A

A D/A A

D/A A

D/A A E A

A D/A A D/A A
Say you drive a Chevy -Say you drive a Ford

E A
You say you drive around the town till you just get bored

D/A A D/A A
Then you change you mind -for something else to do

E A
And your heart gets bored with your mind and it changes you

D A
Well it's a doggone shame - and it's an awful mess

E A
I wish you love - I wish you happiness

E A
I guess I wish - you all the best

A D/A A

D/A A

D/A A E A