The Saddest Song
Doug Ashdown
Tom: Dm
Intro:
Fi – Emi – Dmi - C – G -
C Em Am
And the papers got wet in the morning rain
Am/G
And the birds came
F G C (G)
And Friday started early that day
C Em
Mr. Albert Allow Wishes Jones
Am Am/G
Rubbed the sleep out of his bones
F
Ate his toast and spoke her name
F
His feet went of to find a train
Cmaj7
Same old way
Am7 /
And his hand reached out to catch it’s pay
Am7 /
And there was much he didn’t know about his life/
Fmaj7 /
The girl who typed his letters
Fmaj7 /
Loved him better
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Than his wife
Chorus:
C Em
And he couldn’t hear the song
Am Am
The chil - dren sang
C Em
And he wouldn’t see the trees
A A7
Be - hind the wall
Dm C#+
And he didn’t hear the melody
F/C G
The bells played when they rang
C C/Bb F G
For the city sang the saddest song of
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 - Cmaj7 - Fmaj7
All
Inter:
Am
And mrs. Milly jones arose
Gm
And ran a comb around her curls
Am
And did the washing and the ironing
Gm
For three dirty little girls
Bm
And her body glowed as she recalled
Am
That the man who sold the milk
Bm
Still thought her young and sweet enough
Am
To say that it was made of silk
Bbmaj7 C7
And she smiled as she re – membered
Fmaj7
All the things about his touch
Bbmaj7 C7
And she wondered how a man like that
Fmaj7
Could make her feel so much
Am
And then she cooked the diner
Am/G D7/F#
For a sad and ti – red ‘n old breadwinner
Chorus:
C Em
And she couldn’t hear the song
Am Am
The chil - dren sang
C Em
And she wouldn’t see the trees
A7 A7
Be – hind the wall
Dm C#+
And she didn’t hear the melody
F/C G
The bells played when they rang
C C/Bb F G
For the city sang the saddest song of
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7 - Fmaj7
Aa - ll
C Em
And the Jones’s leaves were in a pile
Am Am/G -
And their children smiled
F G7 C (G)
And brought them breakfast on a tray
C Em
And Mr. And Mrs. Jones
Am Am/G
Rubbed the sleep out of their bones
F Fmaj7
Took the food and said “thank you”
Fmaj7
And then they wondered what to do with the
Cmaj7
Saturday
Fmaj7 /
And her hand reached out to catch his pay
And as he gave
Fmaj7
He smiled and called her “mother”
Fmaj7 /
And she spent some u - pon a child
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
And the rest upon her lo - ver
Chorus:
C Em
And they couldn’t hear the song
Am Am
The chil - dren sang
C Em
And they wouldn’t see the trees
A7 A7
Be – hind the wall
Dm C#+
And they never hear the melody
F/C G
The bells played when they rang
C C/Bb F G
For the city sang the saddest song
Cmaj7
Of all, of
Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Aa – aa – ll
Cmaj7 – Fmaj7
(START FD ING)
Outro:
Cmaj7
Deu deu deu deueueueu
Fmaj7
Deu deu deudeu deueueueu
Cmaj7
Deu deu deu deueueueu
Fmaj7
Deu deu deudeu deueueueu
Fi x81010108
Emi x79987
Dmi x57765
C x32010
G 320033
Em 022000
Am x02210
Am/G 302210
F 133211
Cmaj7 x32000
Am7 x02010
Fmaj7 102210
A x02220
A7 x02020
Dm xx0231
C#+ x43221
F/C x33211
C/Bb x12010
Bbmaj7 x13231
C7 x32310
D7/F# 2x0212