Five Oclock World

Intro: [acoustic guitar plays this 
riff through each verse; 2X solo at 
start]

        Capo IV
E|----| -- 

        E/G#            D/A
        (C/E)          (Bb/F)
         v       v       v       v
E|-0---------------1--------------
B|-----3---3p1---------4---4p3----
G|-------------0---------------3--
D|-2---------------3--------------
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------

        [bass and drums enter]

        E         D         E    
           [hey]     [hey]     
     D
[hey]     [hey]

Verse 1:

        E         D            
        Up every morning just to 
   E      D
keep a job
                 E        D       
        I gotta fight my way 
        E        D
through the hustlin' mob
         E             D          
        Sounds of the city 
  E      D
poundin' in my brain
               E           D      
        While another day goes 
       E
down the drain

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Chorus 1:

                    A          
        But it's a five o'clock 
  D              A       D
world when the whistle blows
        A             D        
        Noone owns a piece of my 
   A     D
time
                       A           
        And there's a five o'clock 
D     A        D
me inside my clothes
        A                      
        Thinkin' that the world 
        B
looks fine, yeah

        E   D     E    D    E   
        Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah
 D    E    D


Verse 2:

        Tradin' my time for the pay 
I get
        Livin' on money that I ain't
 made yet
        Gotta keep goin', gotta make
 my way
        But I live for the end of 
the day

Chorus 2:

        But it's a five o'clock 
world when the whistle blows
        Noone owns a piece of my 
time
        And there's a long-haired 
girl who waits, I know
        To ease my troubled mind, 
yeah

        Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

Verse 3:

        In the shelter of her arms 
everythings OK
        She talks and the world goes
 slippin' away (it slips away)
        And I know the reason I can 
still go on
        When every other is gone

Chorus 3:

        In my five o'clock world she
 waits for me
        Nothing else matters at all
        'Cause every time my baby 
smiles at me
        I know that its all 
worthwhile, yeah

Coda: [repeat to fade]

        E   D     E    D    E   
        Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah
 D    E    D