I've Been Down So Long (It Looks Like Up To Me) chords by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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He walks  (G major) these tracks
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G 
and never  (F major) looks around  (G major) 
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He bums what he can  (F major) get in any town  (G major) 
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G 
He's  (C major) grown content to live on char (G major) ity
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I've been down so long it  (F major) looks like up to  (G major) me

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Verse 2

I make excuses when I read the news

On the side of some ole dirty train

He's conjures up a taste of fantasy

Verse 3
I've been down so long it
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G 
 (F major) looks like up to me  (G major) 
C 
I've been  (C major) down so long it
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G 
 (D major) looks like up to  (G major) me

Verse 4
G 
Well, I pushed  (G major) him off the lad
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G 
 (F major) der of success  (G major) 
That's true
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F 
But down here  (G minor) on  the bottom  (F major) I get rest
G 
 (G major) 

Verse 5

He's saved his thoughts

to buy a memory

Verse 6

I've been down so long

it looks like up to me

Verse 7
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I put  (G major) my finger in  (F major) his mind's  (G major) eye
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And I've given him a reason  (F major) now to cry  (G major) 
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I put  (C major) his song of life in the wrong  (G major) key
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I've been  (C major) down so long it
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G 
 (D major) looks like up to  (G major) me
Yeah, he's been down so
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G 
long it  (F major) looks like up to  (G major) me

Verse 8
C 
Poor Lee,  (C major) I  wish you would come up here Lee,
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you're break (D major) ing my heart down there
G 
I  (G major) wish you would tell this
story to everybody
Listen to him crying down there
You keep secrets
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 (F major) Poor Lee
You've hurt me
G 
 (G major) I'm sorry
I'll never forget
C 
 (C major) I'm a poor sport