Key: Db major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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After spending all the week—long
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Tells me she made feel so used
F#m
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but I leave that all behind
G#
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See, I was makin' real good money then,
C#m
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I imagine he must get lonely but if he
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Bsus4
But when you're guarding a prison how do you
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F#m
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F#m
choose what to bail?
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F#m
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F#m
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I've got an older friend named Pete
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F#m
Likes to talk about old girlfriends and
the places that he's been
G#
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But he's always been a hippy since
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F#m
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F#m
he tells funny and wise tales
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Says, "When you're holding a hammer everything looks like
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F#m
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G#m
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a nail"
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F#m
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F#m
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Now me, I'm out here in the world,
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And giv ing everything I have to get
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takes enough just for today
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G#sus4
in the middle of the sea
C#m
G#m
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And I look for pretty story for to sing as mine
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F#m
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F#m
and fill my sail
G#m
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Bsus4
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And when you live by the weather every wind has a tail
Outro 1
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