The tuning for this song is E - A - D - F# - B - E  and Capo 2

Verse:              Chorus
E : 022200           C#m : x2444x
A9 : x02300       A9 : x0244x
B4 : x24500       F#m : 244xxx
                    B4 : x24500
//: Tacet (stop)

Intro: E - A9 - B4

          E
Well, I'm lost
    A9
I'm afraid
B4
Rope tying down a leaky boat
       E                  A9                     B4
To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing
       E            A9     B4
If I'm more then it means less

Last call for happiness
         E                           A9                      B4
I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing
      E          A9        B4
I'm a float in a summer parade
                         E        A9        B4
Up the street in the town that you were born in
       E           A9       B4
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
                     E     A9           B4
And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen

Chorus:
C#m                               A9
   Well beauty's just another word
                             F#m
I'm never certain how to spell
                              A9  B4
Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V .  back on
C#m                   A9
  Throw away my misery
                            B4
It never meant that much to me
                          //
It never sent a get-well card.


        E             A9 B4
And I'm broke, like a bad   joke

Somebody's uncle told 
     E                    A9            B4
At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy-two
        E                  A9                  B4
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
E                      A9                   B4
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed

(Let all chords ring until chorus)

        E                  A9                   B4
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
        E                  A9                   B4
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
        E                A9             B4
And he thought about how everyone dies someday
    E             A9                           B4
And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be
    E                  A9            B4
And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat

Chorus:
C#m                     A9                          F#m
  Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline
A9                             B4
  And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
C#m                          A9
  And disassembles my despair
                     B9
It never took me anywhere
                           //
It never once bought me a drink