I've Been Down So Long chords by Lee Hazlewood

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Intro 1

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

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Verse 2

I make excuses when I read his name

On the side of some old dirty train

It conjures up a taste of fantasy

I've been down so long it

looks like up to me

Verse 3
C 
F 
I've been down so long it
G 
C 
looks like up to me
Well, I pushed him off the
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C 
ladder of success
That's true
Bb 
But down here on the bottom I get rest
C 

Verse 4

He saves his thoughts to

buy a memory

Verse 5

I've been down so long

it looks like up to me

Verse 6
C 
Bb 
C 
I put my finger in  his mind's eye
Bb 
C 
And I've given him a reason now to cry
F 
C 
I put his song of life in the wrong key
Bb 
I've been down so long it look
C 
s like up to me

Verse 7
C 
F 
Yeah, he's been down so long
G 
it looks like up to Lee
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F 
G 
Poor Lee, I wish you would
come up here
C 
Lee, you're breaking my heart
down there
I wish you would tell this story
to everybody
F 
Listen to him crying down there
You keep secrets
Poor Lee
You've hurt me
G 
I'm sorry
I'll never forget
Haha!
C 
I'm a poor sport
Haha!