Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
F#m
Em
F#m
A
F#m
Em
F#m
A
F#m
24 years of hard work and devotion
Em
F#m
24 years of nine to five each day
Em
F#m
Em
They let him go with no
Em
F#m
They let him down
and all that they could say
D
A
D
Is that's the way it is
There's nothing we can do
Em
F#m
It's just the way it is
A
Em
B
When the dice come flying
F#m
Em
B
It's the way it is
Em
A
He should've taken a vacation
He should've moved to Spain
A
F#m
He took to drinkin',
Em
F#m
drinkin' for the nation
Em
F#m
He hitched a ride on the whiskey train
Bm
D
There was nothin' he could do
Em
F#m
Em
It's just the way it is
F#m
D
He was walkin' in dead
man's shoes
C
B
F#m
Em
Am
Headin' for twelve bars and the blues
D
Am
D
Em
F#m
D
C
Gm
B
Em
Lying's easy, but the truth is hard
There's nothing you can do,
A
Em
it's just the way it ends
C
B
A
F#m
Em
betting for twelve bars
F#m
D
F#m
24 years of work and devotion
A
F#m
Count for nothing in a final score
A
F#m
You think you're doing okay,
heading for a promotion
A
F#m
They roll the dice
and then you're on your way
A
Em
F#m
It's just the way it is
C
B
when the dice come flyin'
A
F#m
Em
It's the way it is
F#m
Em
D
You're walkin' in dead
man's shoes
C
B
Headin' for twelve bars
F#m
Em
D
C
B
A
Em
Twelve bars and a blues
D
C
12 bars and blues
B
Em
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