Key: C
Introduction:
C F
"Don't you let the lessons stop, time ain't just hands on a clock"
C G
That's what I'm gonna tell Pop when I leave
C G C
If i can drive this car all on my own
C F
I guess i'll leave my girl behind, I should have done that long ago
C G
Sometime I'm sure the pain will go away
C F
It wasn't working anyhow, the burners on the stove burnt out
C G C
A shame I didn't figure it out before
Am C F C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am F G
Sing along with me before I go
Am C F C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F G C
Things that we ain't never gonna know
C F
I met a man in San Francisco, he told me he did the same thing
C G
Fifty years ago, he left his girl behind
C F
He sits there in the park one hand is strumming his guitar
C G C
Songs he found inside a bottle of wine
C F
I saw the same things on his face, the ones that made me race away from
C G
everything i'd ever really known
C F
the scare to take responsibility from here -and put her there-
C G C
Where everyone can see the seeds you've sown
Am C F C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am F G
Sing along with me before I go
Am C F C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F G C
Things that we ain't never gonna know
Am C F C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am F G
Sing along with me before I go
Am C F C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F G C
Things that we ain't never gonna know
C
You know my line Joe?
C F
If you think about the Creature that you might have thought would teach you
C G
That our hearts are just the thing right from the start
C F
It would keep us from the worries, safe from sound and safe from fury,
C G C
Safe at home besides the ones we know we loved
C F
If you told me from the start that I could never be apart from her,
C G
I'd tell you, "go to hell, get out of my way"
C F
But i've come back with my tail between my legs I didn't know the way
C G C
A man can't be a man all on his own
Am C F C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am F G
Sing along with me before I go
Am C F C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F G C
Things that we ain't never gonna know
Am C F C
The sun is going down on this lonesome town
Am F G
But I got you here to keep my company
Am C F C
You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?
F G C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
Am C F C
You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?
F G C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
F G C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
F G Am
For that reason I won't ever let you go
C F G C
For that reason I won't ever let you go