Intro: [acoustic guitar plays this riff through each verse; 2X solo at start]

      Capo IV
      ---- --

      E5            D5
      ( C5 )          ( Bb5 )
         v       v       v       v
      -0---------------1--------------- | 
      -----3---3p1---------4---4p3----- | 
      -------------0---------------3--- | 
      -2---------------3--------------- | 
      --------------------------------- | 
      --------------------------------- | 

      [bass and drums enter]

      E5         D5         E5         D5
         [hey]     [hey]     [hey]     [hey]

Verse 1:

      E5         D5               E5      D5
      Up every morning just to keep a job
               E5        D5               E5        D5
      I gotta fight my way through the hustlin' mob
       E5             D5            E5      D5
      Sounds of the city poundin' in my brain
             E5           D5             E5
      While another day goes down the drain

Chorus 1:

                  A5            D5              A5       D5
      But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
      A5             D5           A5     D5
      Noone owns a piece of my time
                     A5           D5     A5        D5
      And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
      A5                              B5
      Thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah

      E5   D5     E5    D5    E5    D5    E5    D5
      Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

Verse 2:

      Tradin' my time for the pay I get
      Livin' on money that I ain't made yet
      Gotta keep goin', gotta make my way
      But I live for the end of the day

Chorus 2:

      But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
      Noone owns a piece of my time
      And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I know
      To ease my troubled mind, yeah

      Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

Verse 3:

      In the shelter of her arms everythings OK
      She talks and the world goes slippin' away (it slips away)
      And I know the reason I can still go on
      When every other is gone

Chorus 3:

      In my five o'clock world she waits for me
      Nothing else matters at all
      'Cause every time my baby smiles at me
      I know that its all worthwhile, yeah

Coda: [repeat to fade]

      E5   D5     E5    D5    E5    D5    E5    D5
      Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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