Tabbed by: DJ
13th Oct 2012

From Gretchen's 2012 CD 'Hello, cruel world'

Tuning:Standard
CAPO: 7th fret (Sounds in key of G)

                                                                           
   C5  C5 A5 A5  F5
 |   /  /   /   /   |   /  /   /  /  | (Riff twice)


           C5       C5     A5                       A5 
I've got five--- minutes...    to sneak a cigarette,
F5                         G5
    Five minutes to my - self,
C5                    C5           A5                  A5 
    Back behind the screen door of Andy's Luncheonette,
       F5                  G5              C5     ( C5 ) ( C5 )
And I ain't got time to worry 'bout my health!


C5            C5           A5                     A5  
    My boss, Andy, says I smoke myself to death,    
F5                                G5
    Andy, he reminds me some of you,
C5                       C5       A5           A5 
    Back when you were Romeo, and I was Juliet,
       F5           G5               C5     ( C5 )( C5 )
West Texas Capu - let and Monta - gue!


C5  A5                        A5      F5
         Now I don't think too much a - bout you anymore,    
C5                   C5        G5
    We weren't much more than kids, 
        A5                    A5   F5
It was nearly twenty years a - go I shut and locked that door,
              C5    C5    A5     A5
Now I've got five------ minutes,
F5             G5              C5  C5  A5  A5    F5
    Not much time to remi - nice!
                            |   /   /   /   /     |   /  /  /  /  |  (Riff twice)


 C5                 C5                    A5                   A5
Most nights I come home from work, and I pour a glass of wine,
         F5                                  G5
Some - times it's three, or four, before I stop,
C5                        C5             A5                    A5
    And Jessie makes a sandwich... if I sleep through supper - time,
          F5                G5                C5      ( C5 ) ( C5 )
And she leaves me on the couch to sleep it off!


C5                              C5                A5            A5
    Now, Jessie just turned seventeen, and she's wild as she can be,
F5                                 G5
    And there ain't nothing I can do,
        C5            C5           A5              A5
Last weekend she ran off to meet a boy in Tennes - see,
F5                G5              C5     ( C5 )( C5 )
    Just like I used to run to you!


C5  A5                        A5       F5
         I gave her hell, when she came home this afternoon,
C5                   C5       G5
    Mascara running down her face,
             A5                 A5      F5
Seems like history repeats it - self, and it ain't up to you,
        C5   C5   A5   A5
And in five---- minutes...     
F5                 G5         C5  C5  A5  A5    F5
   ...your whole life can change!
                          |   /   /   /   /     |   /  /  /  /  |  (Riff twice)


C5                   C5                   A5                 A5
    Now, Andy, he's good to me, and I can see it in his eyes,
F5                            G5
    He'd love to take your place,
C5                           C5          A5                 A5
    But something deep in - side me just...  withers up and dies,
         F5                G5             C5      ( C5 )( C5 )
To make love to him , and only see your face!


C5   A5                        A5      F5
          Somehow I've let my - self go gently down the stream ,
C5                C5          G5
    A fine ex - ample I have set,
              A5             A5             F5
Between the working and the living, and the ghosts that haunt my dreams,
           C5   C5    A5    A5
I've got five------ minutes,
F5                   G5                C5  C5   A5 A5    F5
    And I'm gonna smoke this cigar - tte!
                                    |   /   /   /   /     |   /  /  /  /  |  (Riff twice)

(End on) 
C5

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C5     =  x32010
C5   =  x2x010
A5    =  x02210
A5  =  3x2210
F5 =  103210
F5     =  103211
G5     =  320003
C5 =  x33010