intro: E A X 2
A E
Once when I was daily growing
A E
Dressed in red from head to toe
B A E
You were all the thoughts I’s knowin’
A B
The sun did shine, no care the season
A E
While I learned my 1-2-3’s and
B A B
You fell in to teach me treason
A B E A
Now I spend my each day busy, jumping on the monkey show
E A
Jumping on the monkey show
B A B
Searching for a face I know
A B E
And I just walk for hours down the red brick march of
A
Market Street
E A
Of Market Street
B A
And spend my each days in repeat
E B
Lady she’s alright with me
F# A
done borrowed all my empathy
E B
and you know she got the best of me
F# A
'cause she's not lyin' next to me.
A E
And all things fine, sweet day beginning
A E
I got up and fell right in and
B A E
Climbed up to where you was living
A E
And you stood in the backdoor yawning
A E
In that cruel way that leads me on and
B A E
You're the reason I wake each morning
A B E
And sunshine plays the puddles through the mornings
A
Evenings afternoons
E A
Evenings afternoons
B A E
I count my thoughts with coffee-spoons
A B E
And something reeks of heaven 'neath the highway
A
Where the hobos sleep
E A
Where the hobos sleep
B A E
And laugh about the pains I keep
E B
And lady, she's a friend of mine
F# A
'Cause I know how to take my time
E B
But I can't say that without lyin'
F# A
So I'll try not to try next time
Bridge:
B E
And I ain’t got no one to bear my burden
B E
Though I could pay with sips of wine
G#m A
Old men like me just tuck their shirts in
E B
Too busy running out, though we
E B
Do our best to do without still
E B A
Too busy running out of time
E B
Well lady I can't take no rest
F# A
With all this weight across my chest
E B
And yesterday I loved the best
F# A
Dun' borrowed too much happiness
