Key: Gb major
Verse 1
D
A
Since first we started out,
D
Em
A
we've simply run about
D
A
And life's been one long
D
A
route unending
D
A
We're always opening plays
D
Em
A
and closing cabarets
It seems to me our ways
C
G
D
need mending
Gm
A
Dm
Let's let the dressy dames
D
A
F#m
Content with being slow,
B
Em
A
we'll never let them know
B
A
C
D
Dm
The nicest place to go is bye -bye
A
B
Edim
A
Why don't we try staying
D
A
G
A
F#m
D
home?
A
Bdim
Em
Why don't we try not
A
Bm
A
D
to roam?
G
A
F#m
A
Bm
What if we threw a party or two
D
Dm
Em
B
An d asked only you
A
G
Cm
A
and me?
D
Bdim
Em
Though all the home
Edim
A
D
folk s that we know
A
C
A
D
G
Pay for it
Em
F#
Gdim
F#
later in Reno
G
A
Just being still might give
D
Gm
C
F#m
us a brand new thrill
B
A
So why don't we try staying
G
D
A
C#aug
home
D
A
D
Let us begin to cut the folks
and talk of nothing but their in
D
A
comes.
Let's have no further use
for going on the loose
A
C
D
juice and gin comes.
Bdim
Dm
C
will make us cease to care
how many parties they're giving.
A
F#m
D
A
We're done with being smart
Bm
A
and so we're going to
Em
A
D
the gentle art of living.
A
B
Edim
A
D
I long to sit by the fireside,
F#m
C
D
Em
G
Em
my man,
G
F#
F#aug
F#
just sitting by my side.
Gm
G
A
Wouldn't that be nice?
C#
D
A
We've tried everything else twice
Gm
Edim
Gm
C
B
So why
Bdim
Em
don't we try
A
D
Em
F#m
Staying home, staying home
A
G
Why don't we try
Staying home
D
G
D
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