Last Thing To Learn Chords

Key: Eb : Chords relative to capo 3. 🎸 Intro: C 🎸 Verse: C E F C A pushbike with a sugar bag, tied to its handlebars, G C was leaning against the pub they called "the star". E F C Inside I saw its owner, a tall and thin old man G C sitting on a stool beside the bar. 🎸 Verse: G F C I dunno why I ask him, if he'd join me in a beer, D G7 but he looked at me and a smile lit up his face, C E F C "Oh, I'd only have the two he said, or I have to ride my bike, G C but on this occasion three's not out of place".

🎸 Verse: C E F C He said "I've been here thinkin' just how much we learn in life, G C we have to learn to crawl before we walk. E F C we start our learning on the very day that we are born, F C before too long we have to learn to talk. 🎸 Verse: G F C and later on, we go to school, we learn to read and write, D7 G and also have to learn the rule of three. C E F C Then comes the time, we go to work, we have to learn our job, G C and on this depends what our future life will be. 🎸 Verse: C E F C Then later on we have to learn if what the good book says is true G7 C when we reach our span of three score years and ten E F C its then we learn the one last thing that there is left to learn G C if there’s another life than this weary world of men 🎸 Verse: G F C he said goodbye and thank you for the drink and for the talk D7 G7 I watched him mount his bike and ride away C E F C I made myself a promise, I'd be here next week G7 C to listen to the things that he might say 🎸 Instrumental: C E F C G C 🎸 Verse: C E F C Then came the day that I went there to the Tampo star hotel G C but his pushbike wasn't leaning by the wall E F C another man was sitting on the stool where he had sat G7 C and I felt my happy spirits kind of fall 🎸 Verse: G F C I asked the man behind the bar if the old chap had been in D7 G7 and was saddened by the words he had to say C E F C no, he said he's not been in, and he’ll never be again, G C our old mates gone, he was buried yesterday 🎸 Verse: C E F C I took my glass in silence and looked out along the road D7 G Where just last week I watched him ride away C E F C Oh, I knew he’d learn the one last thing, he said was left to learn G C F7 Fm7 C The secret of that other life he knows today.