Introduction: D9 D9/C D9/B A9

D9                       
   The 1st time I saw you
D9/C  
   I did try hard to burn my eyes
D9/B
   Life was but a sad dream
   I was but a sad breath
       A9
   But you were something like sand
   When sunlight hits the sea

D9
   The 2nd time I saw you
D9/C
   I was about to take the road
D9/B
   I asked would you wait for me
   You said life ain't a highway
          A9    
   Better if we'd been born
   As siamese songbirds

D9
   The 3rd time I saw you
D9/C
   We went to the zoo
D9/B
   All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys 
   A9
   Big eyes laughing
   With I had not held hands

D9
   The 4th time I saw you
D9/C
   It was like I was gonna die
         D9/B
   I was waiting outside
   You just had a new guy
   A9
   Asked me why, I, I

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

 D9 , D9/C , D9/B , A9 )
D9
  The 5th time I saw you                             
D9/C
  He was traveling abroad
D9/B
  And your eyes, they were not here
  You just made new friends
  A9
  While I tried to stop with cigarrettes

D9
  The 6th time I saw you
D9/C
  I was properly insane
D9/B
  For the whisky I had drunk
  The drugs I'd taken
  A9  
  Gimme one way and you will realise

D9
  The 7th time I saw you
D9/C
  You were married again
D9/B  
  If I had just once kissed you
  Things wouldn't be the same
  A9 
  Surely the sky'd be different

D9
  The 8th time I saw you
D9/C
  I was strummin' the guitar
D9/B
  & your ear were just for him
  My ears were a-bleeding
      A9      
  The waiter was blind
  Please someone blind my eyes!

  D9 D9/C D9/B A9 (with the mouth organ)

D9
  The last time I saw you
D9/C
  It was about six a.m.
D9/B
  You approached me in a strange car
  Finally kissed me
      A9
  Then did wave goodbye
  Before you disappear

D9
  Sometimes I ache, babe
D9/C
  Or I ain't hard enough to stand
D9/B
  But the days they just drown me
  Coming back from work
   A9
  Having sour breakfast
                       D9
  Seasick from your chest.