Key: E
Introduction:
Bb F/A
I've been drinking all through summer
F6/G
I guess I've had a laugh
Bb F/A
I've had every kind of fun I could have
F6/G
had
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Looking at my crowd tonight
Bb F/A F6/G
There's a sober kind of sparkle
F Eb7M
in their eyes
F
That I don't like
Eb7M
'Cause everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Eb7M
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F
are as plain to see as that
Bb F/A
I'm a man of repu - tation
F6/G
in this rocker's town
Bb F/A
I have lived it up so long
F6/G
I'll never live it down
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Every back room bed I've made
Bb F/A F6/G
Every allnight thrill room - service
F Eb7M
bill I've paid
F
Looks cheap to - day
Eb7M
'Cause everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Eb7M
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F
are as plain to see as that
Eb7M
Yet everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Eb7M
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F
are as plain to see as that
Cm
I took a chemical va - cation
Gm Eb
in my head
G# Eb
But now I'm back here at the station
Gm G7 Eb7M
with a trunk of re - gre - t
Bb F/A
Thought I found myself a frequency
F6/G
be - yond her voice
Bb F/A
But the memories keep breaking through the
F6/G
noise
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So brother, send a ship for me
Bb F/A
before I wash u - pon
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the shore of clari - ty
F
And I can see
Eb7M
That everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Eb7M
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F
are as plain to see as that
Eb7M
Yeah, everwhere I go,
Gm F
there are ghosts of what I had
Eb7M
Like the buttons on my clothes,
Gm F
they are everywhere I'm at
Eb7M
Yeah everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
Eb7M
everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
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Eb7M
everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
Eb7M Gm- F
everwhere I go