Artist: Gretchen Peters
Song: Five minutes
Tabbed by: DJ
13th Oct 2012

From Gretchen's 2012 CD 'Hello, cruel world'

Tuning:Standard
CAPO: 7th fret (Sounds in key of G)

C  C/B Am Am/G  Fmaj7
|  /  /   /   /  |  /  /   /  / |(Riff twice)

C (x32010@1)     C/B (x2555x@1)   Am (x02210@1)                     Am/G (302210@1)I've got five--- minutes...    to sneak a cigarette,
F (133211@1)                       G (320003@1)   Five minutes to my - self,
C (x32010@1)                  C/B (x2555x@1)         Am (x02210@1)                Am/G (302210@1)    Back behind the screen door of Andy's Luncheonette,
       F (133211@1)                G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)   (Csus4) (C)
And I ain't got time to worry 'bout my health!

C (x32010@1)          C/B (x2555x@1)         Am (x02210@1)                   Am/G (302210@1)
    My boss, Andy, says I smoke myself to death,    
F (133211@1)                              G (320003@1)   Andy, he reminds me some of you,
C (x32010@1)                     C/B (x2555x@1)     Am (x02210@1)         Am/G (302210@1)    Back when you were Romeo, and I was Juliet,
       F (133211@1)         G (320003@1)             C (x32010@1)   (Csus4)(C)
West Texas Capu - let and Monta - gue!

C/B (x2555x@1)Am (x02210@1)                      Am/G (302210@1)    F (133211@1)        Now I don't think too much a - bout you anymore,    
C (x32010@1)                 C/E (x3111x@5)      G (320003@1)   We weren't much more than kids, 
        Am (x02210@1)                  Am/G (302210@1) FIt (133211@1)was nearly twenty years a - go I shut and locked that door,
              C (x32010@1)  C/B (x2555x@1)  Am (x02210@1)   Am/GNow (302210@1)I've got five------ minutes,
F (133211@1)           G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)C/B (x2555x@1)Am (x02210@1)Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)   Not much time to remi - nice!
                           |  /   /   /   /    |  /  /  /  / | (Riff twice)

C (x32010@1)               C/B (x2555x@1)                  Am (x02210@1)                 Am/GMost (302210@1)nights I come home from work, and I pour a glass of wine,
         F (133211@1)                                GSome (320003@1)- times it's three, or four, before I stop,
C (x32010@1)                      C/B (x2555x@1)           Am (x02210@1)                  Am/G (302210@1)   And Jessie makes a sandwich... if I sleep through supper - time,
          F (133211@1)              G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1)    (Csus4) (C)
And she leaves me on the couch to sleep it off!

C (x32010@1)                            C/B (x2555x@1)              Am (x02210@1)          Am/G (302210@1)   Now, Jessie just turned seventeen, and she's wild as she can be,
F (133211@1)                               G (320003@1)   And there ain't nothing I can do,
        C (x32010@1)          C/B (x2555x@1)         Am (x02210@1)            Am/GLast (302210@1)weekend she ran off to meet a boy in Tennes - see,
F (133211@1)              G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)   (Csus4)(C)
    Just like I used to run to you!

C/B (x2555x@1)Am (x02210@1)                      Am/G (302210@1)     F (133211@1)        I gave her hell, when she came home this afternoon,
C (x32010@1)                 C/E (x3111x@5)     G (320003@1)   Mascara running down her face,
             Am (x02210@1)               Am/G (302210@1)    FSeems (133211@1)like history repeats it - self, and it ain't up to you,
        C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1) Am (x02210@1) Am/GAnd (302210@1)in five---- minutes...     
F (133211@1)               G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)C/B (x2555x@1)Am (x02210@1)Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)  ...your whole life can change!
                         |  /   /   /   /    |  /  /  /  / | (Riff twice)

C (x32010@1)                 C/B (x2555x@1)                 Am (x02210@1)               Am/G (302210@1)   Now, Andy, he's good to me, and I can see it in his eyes,
F (133211@1)                          G (320003@1)   He'd love to take your place,
C (x32010@1)                         C/B (x2555x@1)        Am (x02210@1)               Am/G (302210@1)   But something deep in - side me just...  withers up and dies,
         F (133211@1)              G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)    (Csus4)(C)
To make love to him, and only see your face!

C/B (x2555x@1) Am (x02210@1)                      Am/G (302210@1)    F (133211@1)         Somehow I've let my - self go gently down the stream,
C (x32010@1)              C/E (x3111x@5)        G (320003@1)   A fine ex - ample I have set,
              Am (x02210@1)           Am/G (302210@1)           FBetween (133211@1)the working and the living, and the ghosts that haunt my dreams,
           C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1)  Am (x02210@1)  Am/GI've (302210@1)got five------ minutes,
F (133211@1)                 G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1)C/B (x2555x@1) Am (x02210@1)name="chord_302210@1">Am/G    Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)   And I'm gonna smoke this cigar - tte!
                                   |  /   /   /   /    |  /  /  /  / | (Riff twice)

(End on) 
C (x32010@1)************************************

C (x32010@1)   =  x32010
C/B   =  x2x010
Am    =  x02210
Am/G  =  3x2210
Fmaj7 =  103210
F (133211@1)   =  103211
G (320003@1)   =  320003
Csus4 =  x33010
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