Intro /
E7#9 [N.C.] G7 G#7
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Verse 1 [3/4]:
LA7 RE7 SOL7 DO7
Stepping off a stone, while I'm walking all alone
LA7 RE7 SOL7 DO7
Walking all alone, like always
FA7 SIb7 MIb7 SOL#7
I got me a new car, it doesn't get me too far
LA7 RE7 LA7 RE7
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):
FA#m7 SI13 FA#m9 SI13 FA#m7 SI13 FA#m9 SI13
Girl, let the world have my money, I don't care
MIm7 LA13 MIm9 LA13 DO7 FA7-5
Girl, make my troubles seem funny and small
SIm7-5 MI7
In no time at all
Bridge [4/4]:
LA7 RE7
Hey, girl...
I been down so long
Yeah, why should it be
SOL7 DO7
If I get to feeling high just thinking
high just thinking
Wrong if I get high
LA7 RE7
Of you alone Can make up for the
you alone you alone
Only you alone
SOL7 DO7
Bad times (unintelligible)
For the bad times and (unintelligible)
FA7 SIb7
If you go it will be the same again
MIb7
I'll be down another friend
SOL#7
Let me say it once again, don't you let it
LA7 RE7 LA7
Slip away like always (don't go)
RE7
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:
LA7 RE7
Like always
LA7 RE7 LA7 RE7
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...]
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