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(    ): Backing Vocals
n.c.  : No Chord
/     : Break(s)

INTRO (slow vocals):

n.c.
I'm gonna give you, forty days,
           A    %
to get back.

VERSE 1:
         A                % 
I'm gonna call up the gypsy woman,
           E7    %
on the tele-phone.
         A                  A7
I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
              D7               %
that'll be the very thing that I do do.
         A                      E7
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
        A    A
in forty days.

CHORUS 1:
           A           %
Yeah, forty days, (forty days),
      | %            | %
forty days, (forty days).
         A                      %
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
        E7               %
in forty days (yeah, forty days).
         A                  A7
I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
              D7               %
that'll be the very thing that I do do.
         A                      E7
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
        A    A
in forty days.

VERSE 2:
          A                      % 
Well I was talking to the judge in private,
          A      %
early this morning.
         A                    %
When the sheriff came along and took me,
           E7     %
without any warning.
           A                        A7
He said I'm setting the charge up, to get ya,
              D7                %
that'll be the very thing that'll hang ya.
         A                      E7
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home,
               /
        A    A
in forty days.

CHORUS 2:
           A           %
Yeah, forty days, (forty days),
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forty days, (forty days).
         A                      %
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
        E7               %
in forty days (yeah, forty days).
         A                  A7
I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
              D7               %
that'll be the very thing that I do do.
         A                      E7
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
        A    %    
in forty days.

SOLO:

A    %    %    %    %    %    E7   %    
                                           /
A    A7   D7   %    A    E7   A    A

VERSE 3, like VERSE 2, plus:

CHORUS, like CHORUS 1, plus:

OUTRO:
         A                      E7
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
        A    A
in forty days.

         A                      E7
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
                /   /
        D7    A
in forty da  -  ys, yeah.