Song: Five minutes Tabbed by: DJ 13th Oct 2012 From Gretchen's 2012 CD 'Hello, cruel world' Tuning:Standard CAPO: 7th fret (Sounds in key of G) C C/AmAm/G Fmaj7 | / / / / | / / / / |(Riff twice) C C/B Am Am/G I've got five--- minutes... to sneak a cigarette, F G Five minutes to my - self, C C/B Am Am/G Back behind the screen door of Andy's Luncheonette, F G C (C)us4) And I ain't got time to worry 'bout my health! C C/B Am Am/G My boss, Andy, says I smoke myself to death, F G Andy, he reminds me some of you, C C/B Am Am/G Back when you were Romeo, and I was Juliet, F G C (Csus4)(C) West Texas Capu - let and Monta - gue! CAm Am/G F Now I don't think too much a - bout you anymore, C C/E G We weren't much more than kids, Am Am/G F It was nearly twenty years a - go I shut and locked that door, CCAAm/G Now I've got five------ minutes, F G C CFmaj7 Not much time to remi - nice! | / / / / | / / / / | (Riff twice) C C/B Am Am/G Most nights I come home from work, and I pour a glass of wine, F G Some - times it's three, or four, before I stop, C C/B Am Am/G And Jessie makes a sandwich... if I sleep through supper - time, F G C (C)us4) And she leaves me on the couch to sleep it off! C C/B Am Am/G Now, Jessie just turned seventeen, and she's wild as she can be, F G And there ain't nothing I can do, C C/B Am Am/G Last weekend she ran off to meet a boy in Tennes - see, F G C (Csus4)(C) Just like I used to run to you! CAm Am/G F I gave her hell, when she came home this afternoon, C C/E G Mascara running down her face, Am Am/G F Seems like history repeats it - self, and it ain't up to you, C C/B Am Am/G And in five---- minutes... F G C C/Fmaj7 ...your whole life can change! | / / / / | / / / / | (Riff twice) C C/B Am Am/G Now, Andy, he's good to me, and I can see it in his eyes, F G He'd love to take your place, C C/B Am Am/G But something deep in - side me just... withers up and dies, F G C (Csus4)(C) To make love to him, and only see your face! CAm Am/G F Somehow I've let my - self go gently down the stream, C C/E G A fine ex - ample I have set, Am Am/G F Between the working and the living, and the ghosts that haunt my dreams, CCAAm/G I've got five------ minutes, F G C CFmaj7 And I'm gonna smoke this cigar - tte! | / / / / | / / / / | (Riff twice) (End on) C ************************************ C = x32010 C/B = x2x010 Am = x02210 Am/G = 3x2210 Fmaj7 = 103210 F = 103211 G = 320003 Csus4 = x33010