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