Capo First Fret
Chorus:
              GSlip (320003@1)slidin' away
              EmSlip (022000@1)slidin' away
               G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)You know the nearer your destination
      C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)     GThe (320003@1)more you're slip slidin' away
           EmI (022000@1)know a man
             G (320003@1)He came from my home town
              C (x32010@1)           DHe (xx0232@1)wore his passion for his woman
        C (x32010@1)        C7Like (x32310@1)a thorny crown
           GHe (320003@1)said Delores
           EmI (022000@1)live in fear
            G (320003@1)          DMy (xx0232@1)love for you's so overpowering
      C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)I'm afraid that I__ will disappear

Chorus
           EmI (022000@1)know a woman
          GBecame (320003@1)a wife
                C (x32010@1)           DThese (xx0232@1)are the very words she uses
       C (x32010@1)           C7To (x32310@1)describe her life
             G (320003@1) 
She said a good day
              EmAin't (022000@1)got no rain
            G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)
She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
      C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)               GAnd (320003@1)think of things that might have been

Chorus
F (133211@1)C7 (x32310@1)G (320003@1)             EmD  
And I know a fath-er
           GWho (320003@1)had a son
              C (x32010@1)                D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)            C7 (x32310@1)      
He longed to tell him all the reasons for things he'd done
            GHe (320003@1)came a long way
           EmJust (022000@1)to explain
              G (320003@1)              DHe (xx0232@1)kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
          C (x32010@1)               D (xx0232@1)         GThen (320003@1)he turned around and headed home again

Chorus
F (133211@1) C7 (x32310@1) G (320003@1)      F (133211@1) C7 (x32310@1) G (320003@1)          EmGod (022000@1)only knows
                GGod (320003@1)makes his plan
          C (x32010@1)          DThe (xx0232@1)information's unavailable
         C (x32010@1)      C7To (x32310@1)the mortal man
            GWe (320003@1)work our jobs
            EmCollect (022000@1)our pay
                 G (320003@1)              DBelieve (xx0232@1)we're gliding down the highway
          C (x32010@1)                     GWhen (320003@1)in fact we're slip slidin' away

Chorus

EmG GEm EmG GEm