She Won't Let Me Fly Away
Words & Music by Bill Danoff
from Aerie (1971)
Moderatly INTRO
G D E A A4 A
Well, I wake up late in the afternoon,
G D E A A4 A
I eat my eggs to the evening news,
G D E A A4 A
and the sun’s gone down ‘fore I find my shoes,
G D E C#m E7/Bbass
Music fills the air, but it’s all the blues.
E A E
And she won’t let me fly away
A E D A
she won’t let me fly away
G D E A A4 A
Well, we got no heat and the window’s broke,
G D E A A4 A
The storm rains came, ev’rything got soaked
G D E A A4 A
And there’s no bread left, nothing here to smoke,
G D E
Then the Lord looks down sayin’,
C#m E7/Bbass D A
“Can’t you take a joke?
G#m F#m E
The palm tree’s just a picture on a postcard,
G#m F#m E
The ocean’s just a mem’ry in my dream,
G#m F#m E
Then a man comes a T.V. sellin’ soapsuds
D A E
To dirty up my rivers and my streams.
G D E A A4 A
Like a myst’ry movie without an end,
G D E A A4 A
When you think it’s over, it just begins,
G D E A A4 A
It’s not always true that the good guy wins,
G D E C#m E7/Bbass
I been down so long that I got the bends.
E A E
And she won’t let me fly away
A
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away
Repeat with variations and fade.