How Long

A                            
Like a bluebird with his heart 
          D
removed lonely as a train
     A   D       A   E        A
I've run just as far as I can run
A                                
If I never see the good old days 
D
shining in the sun
A             E             A
I'll be doing fine and then some
    F#m E    D   A              
But how long how long woman will
     E
 you weep
F#m  E   D   A     E          
How long how long  rock 
       A
yourself to sleep
A
You've been doing time in a lonesome
 prison
D
Where the sun don't shine
A                            E
Just outside a freedom river runs
A
Outside  where it's shinny and night
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           D
With those blood hounds on your mind
A                       E        
Don't you know it's the same sad 
       A
situation
    F#m E    D   A              
But how long how long woman will
     E
 you weep
F#m  E   D   A     E          
How long how long  rock 
       A
yourself to sleep


G  O

A                                 
Everybody seems all right you know
   D
 I heard some poor fool say
A                            E
Everyone is out there on the loose
  A
I wished I lived in the land of 
fools  ??
    D
And no-one knew my name
A               E                 
What you get is not quite what you 
 A
choose
    F#m E    D   A              
But how long how long woman will
     E
 you weep
F#m  E   D   A     E          
How long how long  rock 
       A
yourself to sleep
F#m E     D   A     F#m   B7 
How long  how long  muddy 
           E
river runs so deep
F#m  E   D   A                 
How long how long goodbye baby 
E                A
rock yourself to sleep
A                E                
Sweet surrender  rock yourself to 
A
sleep
A             E              
Bye bye baby  rock yourself to 
 D      A
sleep

  done in concert by SHF

  From John David Souther
  Asylum Records 1972
  Golden Spread Music/Benchmark 
Music (ASCAP)