Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

The cool is dead, baby go on to sleep

Rest your weary head and lover bury me

And in the morning we'll start over again

That's how they do it up on the screen

So me and my baby we would dance all night

But I don't know the steps in my baby's time

To do it like they do it for the girls uptown

I hear they light 'em up like the blues

Pre-chorus

 So I'm waiting, so I'm waiting

 And she's waiting, and she's waiting

 For us to remember...

Chorus

 Was I good to you, the wife of my youth

 Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do

 So I will wait on the edges in between

 These New York streets

 Where you and I would meet

 Post Chorus: , , , , (the same as the verse)

Verse 2

For 29 years we loved that line

And I would take it easy if I had your mind

But I'm a cannonball to a house on fire

And you're slow like Motown Soul

So what now lover with your long black hair?

If I cut you open baby I can repair

And bandage your wounds with the salt on my tongue

And I'm the only one 'round here

Pre-chorus 2

 So I'm waiting, so I'm waiting

 And she's waiting, and she's waiting

 For us to recover...

Chorus 2

 So was I good to you, the wife of my youth

 Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do

 So I will wait on the edges in between

 These New York streets

 Where you and I would meet

Bridge

 And only I can heal your wounds

 Only I can heal your wounds

 When you can't go on

 When you can't go on

 When you can't go on

 When you can't go on, anymore...

Muted Pre-Chorus:

 So was I good to you, the wife of my youth

 Not another soul could love you

 Like my...

Chorus 3

 So was I good to you, the wife of my youth

 Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do

 So I will wait on the edges in between

 These New York streets

 On all these New York streets

 Where you and I would meet

Hopefully everything is okay but as I worked this out by ear who knows?

Enjoy! :)