C                        F
Baby I've been brewing my own beer
C                        F
I'd pour you a pint if you were still here
C                        F
I know your new man's kind of a big deal
         G                            F
But I bet he don't brew his own beer

C                        F
Baby I quit smoking those cigarettes 
C                        F
If I could only get off this Nicorette
C                        F
You know I only started because we met
G                        F
Thanks for being a sport about my breath

C  F  G  F           C  F  G  F
You didn't get the best of me
F                  G
The best of me came after you
F                        G
Now it's being wasted on someone new

C                        F
Baby I've been cooking this gumbo
C                        F
With okra, celery, peppers, quote-sausage-quote
C                        F
It's a shame I never got to fix you a bowl
G                        F
But maybe sometime later ? you never know


C                        F
And babe I finally finished a marathon
C                        F
Next year I'm trying to qualify for Boston
C                        F
Remember all our hung-over morning runs?
G                               F
Well, without you the miles seem twice as long


Em                          F
I hear you finally found your sound
Em                        F
Your low notes always fell to the ground
Em                         F                    G     A
I hear you finally found your sound second-hand

C  F  G  F           C  F  G  F
You didn't get the best of me
F                  G
The best of me came after you
F                  G
Now it's being wasted on someone new
F                  G
I'm wasted now with someone in lieu

C                        F
Baby I've been brewing my own beer
C                        F
I'd pour you a pint if you were still here
C                        F
I know your new man's kind of a big deal
         G                            F
But I bet he don't brew his own beer