Standard (EADGBE)

  [E7#9] / / / / / /

Verse 1 [3/4]:

  Stepping off a stone, while I'm walking all alone

  Walking all alone, like always

  I got me a new car, it doesn't get me too far

  I'm all out of gas, like always

Verse 2

Gotta pay the rent, but all my money's spent

All my money's spent, like always

I wonder where my pay went, missed another payment

I'm all out of bread, like always

Chorus [3/4] (chords implied by vocal harmonies):

  Girl, let the world have my money, I don't care

  [F7-5]

Girl, make my troubles seem funny and small

-5

In no time at all

Bridge [4/4]:

  Hey, girl...

I been down so long

Yeah, why should it be

  If I get to feeling high just thinking

high just thinking

Wrong if I get high

  Of you alone Can make up for the

you alone you alone

Only you alone

  Bad times (unintelligible)

For the bad times and (unintelligible)

  If you go it will be the same again

  I'll be down another friend

  Let me say it once again, don't you let it

  Slip away like always (don't go)

  Don't slip away like always

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3

Things have got to move, I've been too long in this groove

Too long in this groove, like always

Things are getting better, ever since I met her

Oh, oh - there she goes, mmm-mmm

Coda

  Like always

  Uh-huh, like always

A7 D7 [continue w/backing vocals to fade]

(Slip away like always)

[spoken: I don't know what to do about that girl

She just comes and goes and goes and goes...]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers