Tabbed by: Kattipus Standard Tuning Capo 1 E5 D5 You line them up C5 Look at your shoes E5 You hang names on your wall D5 C5 Then you shoot them all E5 D5 You fly around in planes C5 That bring you down E5 To meet me who loves you, like D5 C5 Me crashing to the ground D5 Are you so lonely? C5 Don't even know me D5 But you'd like to stone me CHORUS E5 G5 Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is? A5 Why don't you tell it like it really is? C5 Before you go on home E5 D5 I used to treat you right C5 Give you my time But when I'd turn my back on you E5 D5 C5 Then you do what you do E5 D5 C5 You've just enough, in my own view Education to perform E5 D5 C5 I'd like to shoot you all D5 And then you go home C5 With you on your own D5 What do you really know? (Chorus) E5 G5 Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is? A5 Why don't you tell it like it really is? C5 Before you go on home D5 And then you go home C5 With you on your own D5 What do you even know? CHORUS E5 G5 Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is? A5 Why don't you tell it like it really is? C5 Before you go on home E5 G5 Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is? A5 Why don't you tell it like it always is? C5 Before you go on home E5 G5 Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it really is? A5 Why don't you tell it like it always is? C9~ Before you go on home