Never Tell A Woman Yes chords by The Monkees

🎸 Intro:
C Am D G C G C
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C Am D G C G C
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D   C  G
Oh my, my, my-



🎸 Verse 1:
C            Am
In a dusty caravan was a girl with a golden tan
    F         G      C   G
And she asked me if I was headed to the east
          C        Am
I politely stepped aside and said I did not need a ride
     F       G        C
That I'd rather take my chances with the heat
        E            Am
Well, when she turned and walked away I saw my big mistake
      F            G
There were jewels on her body oh-so-rare
    C            Am
Had it been another day I just might have rode away
     F      G        C
With that woman riding off to God-knows-where

🎸 Verse 2:
    C                   Am
So the years they came and went, and found me living in a tent
F      G       C   G
Far above a little marble stream
    C                 Am
And it may have been the light that shone out through the night
   F         G        C
That attracted the hand scratching on my screen
    E                          Am
When I cautiously looked out through the night there was no doubt
     F              G
That the owner of that hand was that girl
   C              Am
So I bid her do come in and I'll open up a tin
     F         G        C
If you'll tell me 'bout your trip around the world

🎸 Verse 3:
     C                Am
Well, she said, "If you think back to the first time that we passed
  F          G      C
I'm sure you'll picture me in all my jewels
    C             Am
It was shortly after then that I ran into another man
   F       G           C
And I asked him the same question I asked you
    E              Am
But now he, he didn't refuse and he took off of both his shoes
  F              G
And climbed aboard my east-bound caravan
    C             Am
In the twinkling of the night he knocked me off the side
  F         G       C
And left me there for dead upon the sand

🎸 Verse 4:
   C             Am
And I thought I was done, lying naked in the sun
   F     G
When much to my surprise, who should pass?
     C                Am
But this old friend of yours, he said he knew you from the wars
   F        G          C
And I told him that I thought you'd headed west
     E                   Am
Well, he said he should have known, 'cause you like to be alone
  F                 G
And that's the time I knew you were my one
   C               Am
So I asked him for a ride, just to get here by your side
  F          G         C
And stay here above this stream out of the sun"

🎸 Verse 5:
C
Well, we sat quiet for a while
  Am
And I began to smile
      F     G          C   G
And I said well it's strange but I don't care
  C                       Am
And some nights when I'm at rest
I wonder if I'd said, "yes"
  F             G        C
If she'd have come to me from God knows where
     E                Am
Or would I have been the one to leave her lying in the sun
     F              G
And then ended up with only precious stones
       C          Am
Or would the woman in my arms be giving me her charms
    F       G        C
If the answer that I gave her wasn't "no"

🎸 Outro:
Am F G B D G C
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