Intro: G/E - G/Eb - G/D - G/C#
G/E G/Eb
Hello Honey, it's me
G/D
What did you think
G/C# Em/C G/B
when you heard me back on the radio?
G/A G *
What did the kids say when they knew
G/F Em
it was their long lost daddy- o?
Em 4x
Em C
Re- member how we listened to the radio
D G
And I said `That's the place for me'
Em C
And how I got the job as an FM Jock
D Am
the day you married me?
G C
It was two kids and I was was into AM rock
D Em
But I just had to run a- round
Am9+5/F C
It's been eight years since I left you babe
D Am thema 1
Let me tell you 'bout what's gone down
Chorus:
G D
I am the morning DJ
Em Am9+5/F
on W . O . L . - D
C G
Playing all the hits for you
D/F# Am
where- ever you may be
G D
The bright good-morning voice
Em Am9+5/F
who's heard but never seen
C G
Feeling all of forty-five
D/F# Em
going on fif- teen
Em C
The drinking I did on my last big gig
D G
made my voice go low
Em C C
they said that they liked the younger sound
D Am
when they let me go
G C
So I drifted on down to Tulsa, Oklahoma
D Em
to do me a late night talk show
Am9+5/F C
Now I worked my way back home again,
D Am
via Boise, in Ida- ho
D Am thema 1
That's how this business goes
Chorus:
G D
I am the morning DJ
Em Am9+5/F
on W . O . L . - D
C G
Playing all the hits for you
D/F# Am
where- ever you may be
G D
The bright good-morning voice
Em Am9+5/F
who's heard but never seen
C G
Feeling all of forty-five
D/F# Em
going on fif- teen
Bridge:
Em Em
I've been making extra money playing high school sock hops
D D
I'm a big time guest M- C
F C
You should hear me talking to the little children
D B7 B7
And listen what they say to me
Em Em
I Got a spot on the top of my head,
D D
just begging for a new toupee
F C
And a tire on my gut from sitting on my butt
D Em Em
But they're never gonna go a- way
Em C
Sometimes I get this crazy dream
D G
That I just drive off in my car
Em C
But you can travel on ten thousand miles
D Am
and till say where you are
G C
thinking that I should stop disk jockeying
D Em
And start that record store
F C
Maybe I could settle down
D Em
if you'd take me back once more
G/E - G/Eb - G/D - G/C#
G/E G/Eb
OK Honey, I see
G/D G/C#
I guess he's better than me
Em/C G/B
Sure, Old Girl, I understand
G/A
You don't have to worry,
G * E snare-1
I'm such a happy man
Em/F
W . O . L . D, 4x
Chorus:
G D
I am the morning DJ
Em Am9+5/F
on W . O . L . - D
C G
Playing all the hits for you
D/F# Am
where- ever you may be
G D
The bright good-morning voice
Em Am9+5/F
who's heard but never seen
C G
Feeling all of forty-five
D/F# Em
going on fif- teen
G D
I am the morning DJ
Em Am9+5/F
on W . O . L . - D
Am9+5/F
W . O . L . - D repeat ad lib et fade
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