Tom: D
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I didn't mean to leave you hanging on a string like I did"
Gm
"Yeah, well, I mean, if you're seeing another man-"
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"There's no other man, Freddie. It's just that I've got my own home now; my own life, my own job,
Gm
I'm a working woman."
D A
"Yeah, just 'cause a man loses his job doesn't mean you got to go dumping him on his ass."
G
"I can't talk any longer, I gotta go."
Gm D
"All right, baby, I guess I'll talk to you later then... some point, have a nice life,
A
do what you want, yeah?"
[Chorus]
G Gm
Suddenly a woman leaves me
D A
I've got no job, machine relieved me
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Suddenly I've lost my piece of pie
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I'm now in mourning and I wear all blue
D A
That's the color you wear when the dead one's you
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Suddenly I am living in a lie
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My woman's off with some other guy
[Verse 2]
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I can remember the first time I saw her, hanging out in one of those singles bars, wearing a
G Gm
really fancy dress. She was drinking a really expensive mixed drink and smoking one of those
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Marlboro 100s with the big fancy plastic filters on the end. Made her look like she had class,
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least I thought so. But then suddenly, bitch left me. All of a sudden, like something suddenly
[Chorus]
G Gm
Suddenly I'm on my own
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I don't hear no rings on the telephone
G Gm
And all the rings that I've given her
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Have been returned
G Gm
I cling to clothes she used to wear
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Then I try them on and I style my hair
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Suddenly I could never be as fine as she
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I've got her eyes but I sure don't have her teeth
[Verse 3]
G Gm D
(And I can remember when we would take walks around the public pool and the way she would
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look at me and the way she would do this whistle and how I would feel, I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try
A
and show you what it was like)
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Oh man
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[Chorus]
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Suddenly I found myself drinking from the lowest shelf
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When all of a sudden I just could not believe my eyes
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There goes some guy walking down the street wearing my tie
[Verse 4]
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(Suddenly I'm not gonna let another man take my woman. Not even death can do us part because when
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I'm an angel, I'm gonna come down from Heaven, and I'm gonna buy her a brand new Cadillac. I'm gonna
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buy her a brand new Cadillac. Let me tell you why, let me tell everybody why. Because in the 50s,
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it was pompadours, and in the 60s, it was peace. In the 70s, it was bell-bottoms, I don't know why
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but.. In the 80s, Ronald Reagan, BMWs, sushi - back home I used that for fertilizer. But in the 90s,
D A
it's love, love is the new fad. I love you, good God almighty"
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[Outro]
-slow, single strums-
G Gm D
Suddenly I have found myself alive
