Breakdown chords by The Everly Brothers

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

 C majorC


🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC                FF     C majorC
The clubs are all closed and the ladies are leaving
            D MajorD      G+G
There's nobody, nobody knows on the street
 C majorC              FF      C majorC
A augmentedA few stranded souls standing cold at the station
  FF     C majorC     G+G     C majorC   FF
And nowhere to go but to bed and to sleep

Bb majorBb            FF
Lord, would you look at you
FF
Now that you're here, ain't you?
C majorC       C7C7
Proud of your peers
    FF
And the long way you've come
   Bb majorBb
All alone, all the way
    FF
On your own who's to say
      C majorC
That you've thrown it away for a song
C majorC                FF     A augmentedA D MajorD
Boy, you've sure come a long way from home

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD              G+G    D MajorD
So it's so long to so many, so far behind you
               E MajorE     A augmentedA
Fair weather friends that you no longer know
  D MajorD             G+G     D MajorD
You still got the same lonely songs to remind you
  G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA    D MajorD G+G
Of someone you seemed to be so long ago


C majorC            G+G
Lord, would you look at you
G+G
Now that you're here, ain't you?
D MajorD
Proud of your peers
    G+G
And the long way you've come
   C majorC
All alone, all the way
    G+G
On your own who's to say
      D MajorD          D7D7
That you've thrown it away for a song
                 G+G
Boy, you've sure come a long way from home