Key: Eb major
Verse 1
B
E
Understanding is the best
F#m
F#
E
Between a boy and a girl
F#
B
Bm
understand
B
E
You know understanding
is a mighty powerful thing,
Verse 2
F#
F#m
When I see my friends wandering
F#
B
E
around through the world,
Never knowing the meaning of the word
D#m
B
Understanding, so in the next few minutes,
F#m
Try to explain just exactly what it means
F#
B
Now wait a minute, listen,
for instance, you take me
Verse 3
work and pay the rent and the
F#
F#m
Bills and buy her fine pretty
just waitin' round the
B
E
that woman loves me,
She's gonna go out and find
F#
F#m
herself one of them who
Will and that's why I
E
Understanding is the best thing in the world,
B
F#
E
Between a boy and a girl
Verse 4
E
D#m
Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
F#m
F#
really understand
Bm
B
Now listen I don't want
One sided affair, no no
Verse 5
E
F#m
F#
Catch her, because what I don't see can't hurt me,
you
If I should ever
names like you all might
F#m
F#
No no
Verse 6
Hardware store and buy myself
Come back, square off,
B
E
and believe her soul's gonna
Belong to the good lord
Verse 7
F#m
Because her head's gonna belong to me,
and I
E
Understanding is the best thing in the world,
B
F#m
F#
Bm
E
Between a boy and a girl
Verse 8
E
D#m
Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
F#
F#m
you really understand
Outro 1
F#
B
E
B
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