Transcribed by Nathan Eltis  
 
   
 Note he uses the same G to Cadd9 change technique that he uses in When I 
 First Met your Ma 
  
 Intro 
  
 G5      C5             x 2 
  

 Verse 1 
 G5                             C5  
 Elly wrapped her 19 years in a coat from '41 
 D5                                           G5 
 She had the looks that would make a grown man cry 
 G5                                                        C5 
 From the Diamantina River country, she crossed the dry mid-west 
  D5                                                                         G5          
  From her childhood dreams and sheltered schemes she cut the ties 
  
 Verse 2 Same chords 
  
 The commercial man made blunt demands, as they travelled south by east 

 Elly turned into a woman overnight 

 The her sat her down in the heart of town 

 The millionaire's retreat 

 She gazed up the tall, glassed concrete walls of main street Surfers 

 Paradise 
  
 Chorus 1 
 C5                               
 If the deck's been marked before the deal 
 D5 
 You learn to compromise 
 C5                             G5       
 Get to know the cool hand with dice 
 G5                         C5                   
 Learn to live off losers, cause they make their mistakes twice       
 D5                              C5 
 Your'e living in high society cos your'e street wise 
  
 Interlude 
       G5      C5 
 Just to Survive            (who knows what he sings in this little ad lib?) 
       G5      C5 
 Just to Survive 
  
 Verse 3 
  
 With her big blue eyes and centerfold looks, man she stacked them in 
 All the senators and doctors called her Madam 
 With her fifteen girls she built a world, A pleasured paradise 
 On what a man of God would call the wages of sin 
  
 Chorus 2 same as before 
  
 Interlude 2 same as before 
  
 Verse 4 
  
 Now a wealth woman drinks with diamnd rings, sits 20 storeys high 
 And gazes out as the sun lifts from the sea 
 To make it to the top, Elly sacrificed a lot 
 And found that a seven figure sum , much too high a fee 
  
 Chorus and interlude to fade