Roy Orbison — Tom Bb
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[A] [G] [D] [A]
There was a man whose memories were made up of nothing.
[G] [D] [A]
He pushed the elevator button, and go home to nothing.
[G] [Dmaj7] [C]
Yes his business had prospered but women get lonely sometimes,
Now she has the house
[G] [Dmaj7] [C]
His son in college had dropped out to expand his mind.
[Em]
And Sarah, his daughter had not spoken to him.
[A] [D] [G] [A]
Maybe he'd raised her the wrong way. He wondered.
[G] [C] [F]
He checked his mailbox, with fingers a-tremblin' no mail, from anyone.
[Em]
”I'm home“ he said softly, as he opened the door
[A] [D] [G] [A]
And gazed at his empty apartment, aching, thinking.
[D#] [Bb] [F] [D#] [Bb] [F]
Southbound Jericho parkway is what you call a one-way street.
[D#] [Bb] [F] [D#] [Bb] [F]
Southbound Jericho parkway is what you call a one-way street.
[D#] [Bb] [Bb7]
At 7.20, Monday after New Year, Mr Henry Johnson leaned against the pedal
[D#] [E] [F]
Aimed his Lincoln steady and drove himself into a wall.
[G]
How could a thing such as this ever happen.
All the community said it was shame.
[B]
He was a good man, he was a clean man yeah,
That's what he was a good and clean man
[D#] [C]
And his landlady said he was an exemplary tenant.
[Cm] [G]
They're always nice and quiet when they're all alone at his age.
[C7]
The young man sat, on a small woven mat.
[Bb] [F] [C7]
While the silken smoke it circled over head.
The cigarettes were there to prove he didn't care
[Bb] [F] [C7]
Bout the contents of the telegram he'd just read.
[Bb] [F] [C7]
Father, father, father.
[Bb] [F] [C7]
You always seemed to be so out of reach.
[Bb] [F] [C7]
And the psychedelic sign read: peace.
Apartment in New York, a girl closes the door,
And leans against it with her head bowed low.
Thoughts raced through her mind of when she was a child.
Raised warmly by a man she didn't know.
Father, father, father.
She wished she had phoned him yesterday
There were so many things she had to say
[Cm] [Bbmaj7]
Henry, the check is in my hands
[G#] [Cm]
Brought by the insurance man to cover all my plans
[Bbmaj7]
We'll have flowers, your broker will be there
[G#] [Cm]
And Sarah, if she cares, and our boy with all his hair
[G#] [G#m] [D#] [Bb]
And the sun rose, and the sunset as it always has,
[Cm] [G#]
And people yet unknown, were busy being born,
[Bb] [Cm]
And time when past.