Introduction: D5 D5 D5 A5

D5                       
   The 1st time I saw you
D5  
   I did try hard to burn my eyes
D5
   Life was but a sad dream
   I was but a sad breath
       A5
   But you were something like sand
   When sunlight hits the sea

D5
   The 2nd time I saw you
D5
   I was about to take the road
D5
   I asked would you wait for me
   You said life ain't a highway
          A5    
   Better if we'd been born
   As siamese songbirds

D5
   The 3rd time I saw you
D5
   We went to the zoo
D5
   All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys 
   A5
   Big eyes laughing
   With I had not held hands

D5
   The 4th time I saw you
D5
   It was like I was gonna die
         D5
   I was waiting outside
   You just had a new guy
   A5
   Asked me why, I, I

   D5
   Son, son, son 
D5 *                                              D5 *
   won't you come along?                     |  |  |  |  |  | 
D5                                          
   We have no time for another               |  |  |  |  |  | 
D9                                           |  |  | 1 | 2
song, song, song                             |  |  |  | 3 | 
D5 *                                          **????
   Won't you sing along?
D5
   We have no sea, child

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D5
  The 5th time I saw you                             
D5
  He was traveling abroad
D5
  And your eyes, they were not here
  You just made new friends
  A5
  While I tried to stop with cigarrettes

D5
  The 6th time I saw you
D5
  I was properly insane
D5
  For the whisky I had drunk
  The drugs I'd taken
  A5  
  Gimme one way and you will realise

D5
  The 7th time I saw you
D5
  You were married again
D5  
  If I had just once kissed you
  Things wouldn't be the same
  A5 
  Surely the sky'd be different

D5
  The 8th time I saw you
D5
  I was strummin' the guitar
D5
  & your ear were just for him
  My ears were a-bleeding
      A5      
  The waiter was blind
  Please someone blind my eyes!

  D5 D5 D5 A5 (with the mouth organ)

D5
  The last time I saw you
D5
  It was about six a.m.
D5
  You approached me in a strange car
  Finally kissed me
      A5
  Then did wave goodbye
  Before you disappear

D5
  Sometimes I ache, babe
D5
  Or I ain't hard enough to stand
D5
  But the days they just drown me
  Coming back from work
   A5
  Having sour breakfast
                       D5
  Seasick from your chest.