Intro : A5 G5 D5

A Gm throughout the whole song

A5                        G5
As the sun shines down on the land
       A5                 G5
So her heart is crying for love
           A5
But there is no-one there
        G5
No-one to hear her voice
           A5               G5
And she will sleep alone again tonight

      A5                G5
Now the moon is high in the sky
       A5                    G5
In her room , she calls out his name
        A5
But he is somewhere else
            G5
Somewhere she cannot see
         A5
Oh and the night is dark between them now
   G5
My God, my God, why did he go away?

A5      G5      A5      G5

      A5                G5
Now the sun shines on a new town
       A5                  G5
With a smile, he gets off the train
          A5
He lights a cigarette
            G5
Leans back to see the sky
         A5
Oh, and he thinks how much better off he is
    G5
without her hanging round

(Let's do it now.)

Whistle Riff
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The day is passing by him
And he has nowhere to stay
At a lonely bar-room table
His mind goes back to yesterday
To the girl who's dead and buried
But her face lives in his eyes
He must forget that face forever,
Make the future start tonight

(Again.)

But the meal he eats is dead flesh
There is cancer in his cigarettes
And the drinks won't do a thing for him
But revive some stupid memories
Then a hairstyle that reminds him
Makes him run into the night
Where the moon hangs high above him now
The same moon that she's praying on tonight

But the wind catches her words
And the moon swallows them whole...

Now the moon is high in the sky
In her room she calls out his name
The night is cold and dark
And she is all alone
The bed is empty now
Her body screams for love
She wants to be with him
Oh, but he's so far away
Oh, and the night is dark between them now
My God, my God, why did he go away?