4th Time Around

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Intro.: (E A)3x B7 F#m 
 
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When she said, 
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"Don't waste your words, they're just lies," 
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I cried she was deaf.             
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And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, 
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Then said, "What else you got left?" 
       B7 
It was then that I got up to leave 
                        F#m    
But she said, "Don't forget, 
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Everybody must give something back 
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For something they get." 
    

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I stood there and hummed, 
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I tapped on her drum and asked her how come. 
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And she buttoned her boot, 
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And straightened her suit, 
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Then she said, "Don't get cute." 
                          F#m
So I forced my hands in my pockets 
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And felt with my thumbs, 
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And gallantly handed her 
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My very last piece of gum. 

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She threw me outside, 
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I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked. 
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And after finding I'd 
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Forgotten my shirt, 
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I went back and knocked. 
  B7
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it, 
                      F#m
And I tried to make sense 
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Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair 
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That leaned up against . . . 

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Her Jamaican rum 
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And when she did come, I asked her for some. 
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She said, "No, dear." 
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I said, "Your words aren't clear, 
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You'd better spit out your gum." 
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She screamed till her face got so red 
                      F#m
Then she fell on the floor, 
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And I covered her up and then 
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Thought I'd go look through her drawer.  

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And, when I was through 
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I filled up my shoe 
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And brought it to you. 
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And you, you took me in, 
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You loved me then 
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You didn't waste time. 
                    F#m
And I, I never took much, 
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I never asked for your crutch. 
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Now don't ask for mine.