Say Hello Wave Goodbye chords by
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Key: C major

Intro 1

Verse 1
[Drum intro]
F# F# 
 
Standing in the door
B B 
 
Of the Pink Flamingo
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
Crying in  the rain
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
It  was a kind of so-so love
F# F# 
 
And I'm gonna make sure
B B 
 
It never happens again
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
You and I, it had to be
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
The standing joke of the year
F# F# 
 
You were a sleep around
B B 
 
A lost and found
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
And not for me I fear

Interlude 1

F#

B

C#

Whoa oh, oh

F#

B

C#

Verse 2
F# F# 
 
I   tried to make it work
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
You in a cocktail skirt
F# F# 
 
And me  in a suit
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Well, it just wasn't me
F# F# 
 
You're used to wearing less
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
And now your life's a mess
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
So  insecure you seem
F# F# 
 
I   put up with all the scenes
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
And this is one scene
F# F# 
 
That's going to be
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
played my way

Chorus 1
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Take your hands off me
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
I  don't belong  to you,  you see
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
Take a look  at my face
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
For the last time
B B 
 
I  never knew you
D#m D#m 
 
You   never knew me
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say   hello, goodbye

Interlude 2

F#

B

C#

Say hello, wave goodbye

F#

B

C#

Verse 3
F# F# 
 
Under the deep red light
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
I  can see the makeup sliding down
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
Hey little girl
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
You will always make up
F# F# 
 
So take off that
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Unbecoming frown
F# F# 
 
What about me, well
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
I'll find someone
F# F# 
 
That's not going cheap
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
In the sales
F# F# 
 
A nice little housewife
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Who'll give me a steady life
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
And won't keep going off the rails

Chorus 2
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Take your hands off me
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
I  don't belong  to you,  you see
B B 
 
D#m D#m 
 
A#m A#m 
 
Take a look  at my face
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
For the last time
B B 
 
I  never knew you
D#m D#m 
 
You   never knew me
A#m A#m 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say   hello, goodbye

Interlude 3

F#

B

C#

Say hello, wave goodbye

F#

B

C#

Verse 4
F# F# 
 
We've been involved for
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Quite a while now
F# F# 
 
And to keep you secret
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Has been hell
F# F# 
 
We're strangers meeting
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
For the first time, okay?
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Just smile and say hello

Outro 1
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, then wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, then wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, then wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, then wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, then wave goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say hello, say goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
Say goodbye
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Say goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
Goodbye
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
C# C# 
 
[Repeat and fade]

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