verse 1 

G 
Maybe I'm a loner, 
C           G 
Maybe I'm a man, 
C           G 
Maybe I'm a fool, 
    D             G    
But tried to understand. 
G 
I've been a dreamer, 
    C         G 
And I've been around, 
    C             G 
And I've spent my time 
   D             G 
In many lonesome towns. 

verse 2 

  G 
I used to know a woman, 
  C              G 
I used to know a child, 
    C                G 
Sometimes she was so gentle, 
    D                 G 
Sometimes she'd be so wild. 
  G 
I gave her all my lovin, 
    C                 G 
And I gave her all my youth, 
   C              G 
So certain of the future, 
   D                 G 
So sure we found the truth. 


[Refrão]
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
Where my love and I did run away, 
                     Am 
We were looking for another day, 
D7                       G 
But we couldn't find the words to say... 
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
All the flowers that we gave away, 
                        Am 
Didn't know our sky was turing gray, 
           D7               G 
We were so young in San Francisco Bay. 

verse 3 

       G 
So you see my darling, 
     C                G 
Just why I've been so strange, 
     C           G 
I've had so many heartaches, 
     D              G 
It's hard for me to change. 
   G 
So when you talk of lovin, 
    C               G 
And going away with me, 
  C                  G 
I still can't help remembering 
    D                  G 
The way things used to be... 


[Refrão]
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
Where my love and I did run away, 
                     Am 
We were looking for another day, 
D7                       G 
But we couldn't find the words to say... 
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
All the flowers that we gave away, 
                        Am 
Didn't know our sky was turing gray, 
           D7               G 
We were so young in San Francisco Bay. 
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
Where my love and I did run away, 
                     Am 
We were looking for another day, 
D7                       G 
But we couldn't find the words to say... 
        C 
San Francisco Bay, 
                        G 
All the flowers that we gave away, 
                        Am 
Didn't know our sky was turing gray, 
           D7               G 
We were so young in San Francisco Bay.