Nobody Wants To Know chords by Gilbert O'Sullivan

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Once I was hailed as a
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prodigal son In other words loved by everyone
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Now it's so  different wherever
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I   go Nobody wants to know
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Tried    having meetings   running about
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Same as I did when I star     ted out
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Now though different wherever I go
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Nobody wants to know
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Could have been normal And look like
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the rest But I   in my wisdom
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Decided instead To create an
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image and this at a time
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When image was one word nobody
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minded you Being abusive too
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Standing in doorways for hours
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on end Waiting to  get back a tape
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I send And when I  get it  what does
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it  show Nobody   wants to know
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Sign on the door say's better come in
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So I enter and play them my songs
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They tell me (all the ones that you
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had bits with in the early days
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were great And,
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while the new ones really sound bang up to date
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There's not a market for a singer of your
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age Unless of course he's dead
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(dead! That's it  you got a deal Look at Buddy Holly,
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Roy Orbison and Elvis
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Why he sold more records after his
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death Than he ever did when he
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Was alive You'll be a sensa
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tion number one all
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over again I an see it now his twenty
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gravest hits) Sooner or  later
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I        will succeed Good luck and timing is
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all I need But for the moment where
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can I   go Nobody wants to know licking
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my wounds from not only my face is
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getting to be so be so common place That
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even the angel my guardian one
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supposedly there to protect me anonymously
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is as nervous as can be I have
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no reason at all to suspect Hatred of
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me adds to my neglect Not that it
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matters cancel the show
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Nobody wants to know