Intro Spoken 

          Eb 
You don't know what it was 
                    Eb 
like blah blah blah blah 


 
[Verso 1]

        Eb 
See you don't know what 
it's like to be a man 
                     Ab 
in the world And be scared 
to lose everything. 
        Eb 
See you don't know what 
it's like to build a life 
                     Ab 
from nothing And be scared 
to lose everything. 



[Refrão]

  Bb 
I bet that's not what 
you said back then 
          Ab 
And don't sing 
your blues to me 
            Eb 
You have no right 



[Verso 2]

       Eb 
By the time I was 
old enough to run 
Momma couldn't move 
and Dad was gone 
       Ab 
So she sat me in a 
room alone to watch TV 
       Eb 
By the time I went to 
school I had no friends 
I didn't even know how 
to play with kids 
           Ab 
They would all run 
around and I would 
just sit alone 



[Refrão]

    Bb 
And do you know what 
            Ab 
its like to cry yourself 
to sleep tonight at 
           Eb 
the age of six 
And seven 
And eight 
And nine 
And ten 
And eleven 
          Ab Eb 
And twelve