Key: G major
Intro 1
F#
B
F#
B
Verse 1
F#
Stop thief! You're
gonna come to grief
B
E
B
If you don't take a little more care
F#
A#m
D#m
B
You're gonna get more than the family plan
F#
B
F#
From this one shoestring affair
D#m
G#
B
I may be crazy buy I can't contemplate
F#
E
Being trapped between the
B
A#m
doctor and the magistrate
Verse 2
A#m
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
G#m
B
Pay it back one of these days
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
Verse 3
F#
And then they told me I
D#m
could be somebody
F#
B
E
B
If I didn't let too much get in my way
E
F#
D#m
B
And I tried so hard just to be myself
F#
B
F#
But I keep on fading away
D#m
G#
And then the lights went out
B
, I didn't know what to do
F#
E
If I could fool myself,
B
A#m
then maybe I'd fool you
Verse 4
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
Verse 5
F#
I wouldn't say that I
was raised on romance
B
E
B
E
F#
Let's not get stuck in the past
D#m
B
F#
I love you more than everything in the world
B
F#
I don't expect that will last
D#m
G#
B
F#
They told me everything was guaranteed
E
Somebody somewhere
B
A#m
must've lied to me
Verse 6
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
Verse 7
B
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
F#
Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back
B
Pay it back one of these days
Verse 8
B
E
F#
Oh one of these days I'm
gonna pay it back
Pay it back
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