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Don't Fall Apat On Me Tonight

Key: C

Introduction: C    Em    F    

C                         Em                                              F  
          Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl,
C                         Em                                                      F  
          just a minute 'fore you touch the door.
C                 Em                                                                      F  
          What is it that you tryin' to achieve, girl?
C                         Em                                                                      F  
          Do you think we can talk about it some more?
                                                Dm  
          You know, the streets are filled with vipers,
                             Dm  
          who lost all ray of hope,
             G  
          you know, it not even safe no more
          G7  
          in the palace of the pope.
C                                    Em                         F         C                                 Em                                      F  
          Don fall apart on me tonight,    I just don think that I can handle it.
C                         Em                         F              Dm                                      Em  
Don fall apart on me tonight, yesterday just a memory,
     F                                                            G                      G7  
tomorrow never what it supposed to be, and I need you, yeah.
C      Em                                                                    F  
          Come over here from over there, girl,
C      Em                                                    F  
          sit down here, you can have my chair.
C            Em                                                    F  
          I can see us goin anywhere, girl,
                     C                                            Em                                                                         F  
          the only place open is a 1000 miles away and I can take you there.
                Dm  
          I wish that I been a doctor,
          Dm  
          maybe I saved some life that been lost,
G  
          maybe I done some good in the world
G7  
          'stead of burnin every bridge I crossed.
C            Em                                                 F  
          I ain't too good at conversation, girl,
C                                              Em                         F  
          so you might not know exactly how I feel.
                     C                                                      Em                                              F  
          But if I could, I bring you to the mountain top, girl,
C                 Em                                                                 F  
          and build you a house made out of stainless steel.
                Dm  
          But it like I stuck inside this painting,
                                Dm  
          that a-hangin in the Louvre,
                        G  
          my throat starts to tickle and my nose itches,
                             G7  
          but I know that I can move.
C                                    Em                         F  
          Don fall apart on me tonight,
C                              Em                                         F  
  I just don think that I could handle it,
     C                    Em                         F  
don fall apart on me tonight.
Dm                                 Em  
          yesterday gone, but the past lives on.
F                                                    G                                      G7  
          tomorrow's just one step beyond, and I need you, yeah.
             F                                                              C  
          Who are these people that are walkin towards you ?
                                F                                                            C  
          Do you know them, or will there be a fight?
                                        F                                         C  
          With their humorless smiles so easy to see through,
                                  F                                                                      C  
          can they tell you what wrong from what right ?
                  F                            C  
          Or do you remember St. James St.
             F                                                            C  
          where you blew Jackie P.'s mind,
                             F                                                                    C  
          he was so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
                     F                                              G                                      G7  
          and laid his life on the                      line
 CEm  F)  
C                      Em                                                                    F  
          Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,
                                C                                            Em                                         F  
          no more booby traps and bombs,              no more decadence and charms,
          C                 Em                                      F  
          no more affection that misplaced, girl,
C                            Em                                              F  
          no more mud-caked creatures lyin in your arms.
Dm  
             What about that millionaire
                                  Dm  
          with the drumsticks in his pants,
                                          G  
          he looked so baffled and so bewildered,
                                G7  
          when he played and we didn dance.
C                                    Em                         F  
          Don fall apart on me tonight,
C            Em                                                              F  
          I just don think that I can handle it.
     C                                 Em                                         F  
Don fall apart on me tonight,
  Dm                                      Em  
yesterday just a memory,
     F                                                              G  
tomorrow never what it supposed to be,
                G7                                      G                         G7  
and I need you, yeah, you, ah, I need you!
CEm  F-