Verse 1:x---------x------------x-----------------x------------------x- Ex---------x------------x-----------------x------------------x- Ax---------x------------x-----------------x------------------x- D6---------6------------6-----------------6------------------6- G5---------5------------6-----------------7------------------8- B5---------5------------5-----------------5------------------5- E I should laugh, but I cry, because your love has passed me by.
------------------x---------------------x---------------x----- E------------------x---------------------x---------------x----- A------------------x---------------------x---------------x----- D------------------6---------------------5---------------4----- G------------------7---------------------6---------------5----- B------------------5---------------------5---------------4----- EYou took me by surprise. You didn't realize that I was waiting.
Chorus:
E A Dm-maj7
|Time goes slowly, but carries on.
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| Dmaj7 A7
|And now the best years have come and gone.
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| Dmaj7
|You took me by surprise.
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| F E
|I didn't realize that you were laughing.
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|D A D
|Laughing - look what you're doing to me.
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|D A D
|Laughing - this ain't the way it should be.
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| D E A
|You took away everything I had, you put the hurt on me.
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|(repeat last three lines)
Verse 2: (same pattern as Verse 1)
I go alone now calling your name after losing at the game.
You took me by surprise. I didn't realize that you were laughing.
(chorus)
(ad lib to fade)
