Capo 5
C
Well he woke up that morning and he called into work
Put on his daddy's old suit with a second hand shirt
F
all untucked, shoes untied
C
The people all snickered as he walked by.
F
So he stopped in a bar,
C
bought a shot of Stevens and another.
F
He bummed a cigarette
C
and set talking to a stranger about the weather.
Am
And then he paid his bill and
G C F
he stepped outside, fell down into the street.
C
He cursed, and he cried
G F G
as he climbed back up his feet again.
C
So up the road he found a payphone and called his mom.
He said, momma I think I'll be coming back home.
F
I been feeling so bad, and tired of this city.
C F
Ain't been the same since I lost my pretty Angeline.
C
Momma I miss her so.
F C
It's been over a year and there ain't nothing I fear so much as being alone.
Am G
And then he hung up the phone without saying good bye.
C F
Stopped in a store and bought a postcard and signed it,
C G F G
Fair thee well, and sent it back home to Yuma.
Am G
Lookin back I'd say,
F C
it wasn't so much the girl.
F C
As it was the booze and the dope
G
and the way he took the weight of the world
Am
up upon his shoulders.
F
And when he washed the blue from his eyes,
C
as he grew colder.
F G
As through all those lonely nights there left alone.
C C/B Am G
C
So he was just 23 when he stepped out on that ledge.
It was his weary heart that pushed him to the edge.
F
He was tired of living life, looking for love.
C
A weary heart just needs a little touch.
F C
And is it too much to ask, he cried as he stepped into the wind.
F C
He turned his back onto the world and he fell back to earth again.
Am G
So with the wind in his hair, and smile on his face,
C F
he crashed through the hood of an Old's 98,
C G
and he lay there dying on a cold winters day
F G C
all alone, all alone.
