Transposed. Capo on the III, if you want to play along with the record.
HOW CAN I? (Steve Hackett, from Please Dont Touch 1978)
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The local radio says sorry time to go
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But I don't sleep too well
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Where are those Southern Belles?
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Tryin to get a telephone line through South Caroline
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Your call may bring somebody down for miles around.
DEA
I'm watching her eyes again.
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I won't use no fountain pen.
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The lady isn't here. The message wasn't clear.
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She left an hour ago, screamed from the floor below.
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Mother nature never gives in, she wants you to sing
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But how can I go on just singing this song.
DEA
My car's out of gas again.
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Hurry home to see my friend
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Money won't help you to win
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a new look at things
E7AE
Loving can bring you down so you fall
E7AE
Then why do you still try to get up at all?
DEA
Your good and bad side showing through
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Problems are a part of you
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You must love someone else or face life by yourself
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You may expect a call. She's waiting in the hall
E7AE
See the garden grows and it grows, nobody else knows
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And you can wear just any old thing,
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the show can begin
DEA
I'm falling asleep to dream.
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No more hills to climb it seems Mmm
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Money won't help you to win
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a new look at things.
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You never give in, So why don't you sing?
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But how can I go on just singing this song?
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My car's out of gas again. I'll be home
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to see my friend Mmm