verse 1: 
     G 
Your guitar's hanging on the wall 
     D/F# 
In a hole in Aberdeen 
         C                      
With the dancing shoes and the brakeman's blues 
        F         C 
And the dirty magazines 
     G 
I've heard that thing a thousand times 
       D/F# 
By the glow of kerosene 
      C 
And I guess I heard you gave it up 
        F              C 
For the sake of coming clean 

Chorus: 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow 
         F                   C 
Ain't is something, ain't it slow 
G                        D/F# 
From the getting up that mighty high 
       F               C 
To the winding up that low 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow, 
         F                  C 
Ain't it something ain't it slow 
    G 
You leave a trail 
   D/F# 
Of harm and hail 
F              C 
Everywhere you go 

verse 2: 
    G                     
The steel wires stretch across the place 
         D/F# 
And they cut it all apart 
          C 
Where the worthless words of the wagging tongues 
     F              C 
They cut you to the heart 
  G 
I always knew the steel was cold 
      D/F# 
And I figured it was sharp 
        C 
Now the steel strings keep me tethered to 
    F               C 
The highway and the harp 

Chorus: 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow 
         F                   C 
Ain't is something, ain't it slow 
G                        D/F# 
From the getting up that mighty high 
       F               C 
To the winding up that low 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow, 
         F                  C 
Ain't it something ain't it slow 
    G 
You leave a trail 
   D/F# 
Of harm and hail 
F              C 
Everywhere you go 
F              C 
Everywhere you go 

INTERLUDE: 
 D               C              G 
they're going to put you in the paper 
D           C               G 
if you're too small for the screen 
   F             C 
they'll ride you blue 
   F             C 
and when they're through 
   F                C 
gonna turn you into glue 
D 
anyway 

verse 3: 
        G 
If your I's are always troubled 
         D/F# 
And your T's are double-crossed 
C 
The buzzards bound to claim he found 
  F               C 
A man that wasn't lost 
       G 
You'll find me here this time, next year 
       D/F# 
If I'm anywhere at all 
      C 
Down in the birl, the swine and pearls 
    F         C 
The girls and alcohol 

Chorus: 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow 
         F                   C 
Ain't is something, ain't it slow 
G                        D/F# 
From the getting up that mighty high 
       F               C 
To the winding up that low 
G                D/F# 
Sorrow, ain't it sorrow, 
         F                  C 
Ain't it something ain't it slow 
    G 
You leave a trail 
   D/F# 
Of harm and hail 
F              C 
Everywhere you go 
F              C 
Everywhere you go