Introd.:   Cm    Cm/Bb    F/A    F7

      Bb            Bb7 
These long lonely  evenings   here  
Eb          G7       Cm            F7
I am on the phone   wondering  when she will 
Bb                       Bb7 
call she said  seh would write me   
               Eb           G7
 'cause  she  knows   I'm alone
Cm            C7        F7 
but   I hear nothing at all I'm 
Bb                              Am    D7
watiting for  a word of love from sylvia
       Gm              Gm7                Fm  Bb7 
You'd  think she never heard of love  my sylvia         
Eb                F/Eb      Dm
 but when I'm  with her   lord,
   G7                        Cm                         C7        Cm  
I forgive her   'cause she's more than the whole world to me      
F7          Bb                             Am  D7
 there's nothing like a word of love from sylvia
     Gm            Gm7            Fm  Bb7 Eb7 
The only one I'm thinking of is sylvia    feeling so sad 
 F/Eb  Dm      G7             Cm          F7        Bb    F#7 
    now I'll be so glad now If I just had my sylvia  with me 
       B           B7                 E         G#7       
That old  weeping willow  seems to whisper her name   
C#m         F#7    B                   B7
 why did she go  away the tears on my pillow
           E          G#7    C#m         C#7       
they're not hard to explain   there's nothing else I can 
C#m  F#7   B                                  A#m7  D#7 
say /    I'm   waiting  for   a word of love from sylvia   
       G#m            G#m7                F#m    B7
you'd think she never heard of love my sylvia
E          F#/E         D#m 
but when I'm  with    her  Lord,
     G#7                    C#m                C#7       C#m   F#7 
I forgive her 'cause  she's more  than the whole world to me    /. 
          B                              A#m7 
There's  nothing like  a word  like my sylvia  
D#7         G#m            G#m7        F#m   B7
         the only one I'm thinking of is sylvia
E        F#/E     D#m           G#7
feeling so sad  now I'd be so glad now
C#m       F#7        B
If  I just had  my sylvia  with me B/A   G#m7   B/G    F#   F#7   B