Coca Cola Cowboy (1979)    (video)    (midi)

 

    D - D7 - G - A - A7 - D

 

    A                                     D     - A                                          D     - A

1.     I call collect on the phone,      you say you're tired and alone,

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    but it sounds like some one else is lying there.

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    She said, “Don't call me no more,       don't you knock on my door,

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    it's too late now and I know you'll never change !”

 

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And she said,       “You're just a coca cola cowboy,

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you got an Eastwood smile and Robert Redford hair.

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But you walked across my heart like it was Texas,

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and you taught me how to say : I just don't care.”

 

  A                                            D     - A                                            D     - A

2.  She said, “Just leave me alone,       and let me hang up this phone,

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    ’cause he'll see me cry and think I still love you.

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    Please, don't call me no more,       I changed the locks on my door,

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    it's time you understood that we are through.”

 

+  CHORUS   - A

 

+  D - D7 - G - A - A7 - D - A                +  CHORUS

 

                     A                          A7                      D

+  Yes, you taught me how to say : I just don't care.

 

(orig. = capo 3rd; midi = capo 2nd)    (Mel Tillis)