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 When I got something to say

 Don’t I always let you know

 So that you and I can go my way

Forev – –ver

 And if I get carried away

 I could sailing on a song

 And maybe we could carry on

Forev – – ver

 But lately this old dog

 Has been cha – - sing his tail

Round and round and round

 And the circles in my mind

 They have been winding slowly Down

Everybody’s bree - – zing up,

 But I’m seizing up

 I’m freezing up

 And I’m fading, fading a – – way.

 Well, I got a on a night in June

 I got room for you and me

 I got moonlight up in the trees

 I got sixty-eight de – – grees

 I got nothing on my mind

 But I got loving in my heart

 And I got something out in the garden

 I want to show

Well, it doesn’t really matter after – – all

 If we quit this round – – about

 ‘Cause no one will really no – – tice

 If we just sit this next one out

 Well, you can strike up the band with – – out me

 You may have your doubts about me

 But I’m just fading a – – way

 You can hardly even see me

 ‘Cause I’m fading away.

Solo

 Well, it’s hard to find a la – bel,

 For this feeling in my bones.

 If this is all a make be – – lieve,

 But my cards are on the table

 And there ain’t nothing up my sleeve .

And here I thought I was a thinking man

 But I’m a shrinking man

 I’m sinking man

 And I’m fading, I’m fading away

 Well, it’s really not so bad to be fading a – – way

C’mon along with me and we’ll go fading away

 You can hardly even hear me

 ‘Cause I’m fading away