Original Is Tuned Half-Step Down [ D# G# C# F# A# D# ]


Intro:
C Am F G


Verse:
[C] You can tell Gayle, if she [Am] calls,
that I'm [F] famous now for all of these [G] rock and roll songs.
[C] And even if that's a [Am] lie, [F] she should've given me a [G] try.
When we were [Am] kids on the [G] field of the [F] first day of [C] school.
[Am] I would've [G] been her [F] fool.
[Am] And I would've sang [G] out your name in those [F] old high school [C] halls.
[C] You tell that to [G] Gayle, if she [C] calls.


Instrumental:
Am - F - G (yes, only 6 beats)


Verse:
[C] And you can tell Jane, if she [Am] writes,
that I'm [F] drunk off all these stars and all these [G] crazy Hollywood nights.
[C] That's total [Am] deceit, [F] but she should've married [G] me.
And [Am] tell her I spent [G] every night of my [F] youth on the [C] floor,
[Am] bleeding out from [G] all these [F] wounds.
[Am} I would've gotten her a [G] ride out of that [F] town she [C] despised.
[C] You tell that to [G] Janey, if she [C] writes.


C (4 beats)


But [Am] boys will be [F] boys and [C] girls have those [G] eyes
that will [Am] cut you to [F] ribbons some [C] times. [G]
And [Am] all you can [F] do is just [C] wait by the [G] moon
and [Am] bleed if it's what she [F] says you oughta [C] do. [G]


Instrumental:
Am – F – C – G / Am – F – C – G
Am – G – F – C / C  - G - C - C
 
Verse:
[C] You remind Anna, if she asks [Am] why,
that a [F] thief stole my heart while she was [G] making up her mind.
[C] I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the [Am] cool,
[F] goes crazy over that New York scene on [G] 7th Avenue.
But I used to [Am] wait at the [G] diner, a [F] million nights with- [C] out her,
[Am] praying she won't [G] cancel again [F] tonight.
And the [Am] waiter served my [G] coffee with a [F] consolation [C] sigh.
[C] You remind [G] Anna, if she asks [C] why.


    Am – F – G
               Tell her it’s alright
C – Am – F – G
               You know it's hard to tell you this.
Am – G – F – C  Am – G – F – C
                                 Oh it's hard to tell you this.
Am – G – F – C   C          G               C
                     Here's looking at you, Kid.