man i love owsley. its about time someone did the rest of his songs so those of us blessed
people who have heard him can play them!

E 4 0 0 2 3 0
B 6 2 0 4 0 1
G 6 2 1 4 0 0
D 6 2 2 4 0 2
A 4 0 2 2 2 3
E X X 0 X 3 X

INTRO: C# A E B

I don’t care what you say
Nothing’s gonna change me anyway
I don’t care what you say about me
Look inside what you see
Ain’t the kind of man I wanna be
Look inside and what you see is not me

I’m alright, you won’t break me
I’m not a slave to conventional ways
I’m alright, you won’t shake me
Time left a mark here that you can’t erase

People come, people go
Is it sincere or just a show
People come, people go, you don’t know

I’m alright, you won’t break me
I’m not a slave to conventional ways
I’m alright, you won’t shake me
Time left a mark here that you can’t erase

Take Sonny, he’s a real go-getter
A regular man about town
He’s got the world revolving around the music
And keeping his ear to the ground

He falls asleep behind his dark sunglasses
And whispers the words with a smile
D I double G, I love ya, baby
I ain’t seen your face in awhile

She ain’t keeping score, he don’t owe her anything
But she ain’t gonna sit around
Waiting for the phone to ring

Chorus:
Sonny Boy, don’t take your toys away
Save them for a rainy day, yea, yea, yea
An IOU could break her heart in two
She thought you were the real McCoy, Sonny Boy

He’s got his servant and his own dumbwaiter
To answer the phone when you call
Sorry, Sonny’s underneath the weather
Try him back later next fall

The boss called him out to California
Let Hollywood make you a star
Now he’s on the Music Television
And driving a Cadillac car

Funny how fame and money does what it can
To bring about change in the boy
The clothes don’t make the man

Chorus:
Sonny Boy, don’t take your toys away
Save them for a rainy day, yea, yea, yea
An IOU could break her heart in two
She thought you were the real McCoy, Sonny Boy

oooh oh oh
It’s a game you just can’t win Ooooh oh oh
Though it never will be the same again
Fair-weather friend

G A D C, G A D C… Am D

I don’t think we’ve heard the last of Sonny
He can’t get it off of his mind
He wants to laugh, but he don’t think it’s funny
A conscience can turn on a dime

When he was a boy, they taught him the Golden Rule
Take him for anything, but don’t take him for a fool

Chorus:
Sonny Boy, don’t take your toys away
Save them for a rainy day, yea, yea, yea
An IOU could break her heart in two
She thought you were the real McCoy, Sonny Boy

This song speaks to me like no other. I am so sad that Will is gone.

DaddA is the only weird chord

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[D/DaddA]

[D/DaddA]

Love is a friend of mine [D/DaddA] It tells me to keep my head

When all those around me a[D/DaddA]re Losing theirs instead

You know me well I do i[D/DaddA]t all on my own

I wanted to turn around And make my house a home

For the king and the queen (And live in never, neverland)

I know they’re waiting for me (But the hourglass is out of sand)

Tell me you know how it feel[G/A]s To be the class clown

[D/DaddA]

[D/DaddA]

When I was a younger man [D/DaddA] Got used to taking it on the chin

I fight when I’m falling d[D/DaddA]own Get back up again

The time has come To pu[D/DaddA]t away childish things

And fly like a mockingbird Angels spread their wings

For the king and the queen (And live in never, neverland)

I know they’re waiting for me (But the hourglass is out of sand)

Tell me you know how it feel[G/A]s To be the class clown

You’re wearing the frown Feeling so down

And still, you paint the town red

You’re waking the dead Making your bed

to lie next to me

Ooooooo Oooooooooo[D/DaddA]

Just sympathy Ooooooo Ooo[D/DaddA]oooooo Oooooooo

Ooooooo Oooooooooo[D/DaddA]

Dooo Doooo Ahhhhhh (Building)

Long Live the king and the queen (And live in never, neverland)

I know they’re waiting for me (But the hourglass is out of sand)

Tell me you know how it feel[G/A]s To be the class clown

(Building)

There’s a place to go when I’m feelin’ low that nobody else will ever know

When your on the road and your fallen down this is how it feels to be the class clown…

Will it ever go away

Tell me you know how it feels

-Bill Butler
bill@butler.net

Ab6 – xx68910

Morning comes and you’re so lonely
And you feel like you’re the only one alive
Since she left you blame yourself
For all the things she never felt
How could you be untrue to yourself
When nobody is watching
Your life isn’t over the clock is still tocking

On[C/B]e day you will wake up and you’ll
[Am/G]Be able to forget the sadness
Get into the gladness
Of love and it’s way and you will not fight it
While everyone dozes, you’re coming up roses

Drowning in a sea of sorrow
She won’t be here for tomorrow’s lullaby
‘Round and ‘round and ‘round she goes
And where she stops nobody knows
But God above
It’s starting to rain and you’re running
For cover like she ran to the arms of another

One day you will wake up and you’ll
Be able to forget the sadness
Get into the gladness
Of love and it’s way and you will not fight it
While everyone dozes, you’re coming up roses

You will learn to try again
When you get your second wind

Orchestal part:
Cm-Bb-F x3 End on G

How long is the road paved with good intentions
Forever waiting divine intervention
Of love and it’s way and you will not fight it
While everyone dozes, you’re coming up roses

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