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Matthew

Intro G7-C-F-Am-F-C-G-C

C	F	Am
What are you thinking of	Matthew my	friend

	C	Am	G
As you	sit in your	room all a	lone

	C	F	Am
You can	see the bright lights in the	city be	low

	C	G	C
In the	place where you	once called your	home

	F	C	Am
And I'm	sure you can still hear the	laughter and	noise

	C	G
Of your	kids as they run and they	play

	C	F	Am
And you	thought you were doing the	best that you	could

	C	G7	C
But it	just didn't	work out that	way

Chorus:

F	G7	C	Am
Just didn't	work out,	just didn't	work out

F	G	C
Just didn't	work out that	way

	F	C	Am
You	thought you were doing the	best that you	could

	C	G7	C
But it	just didn't	work out that	way

	C	F	Am
And your	mother's long gone and your	father is	too

	C	Am	G
There's	times you	wish you were	dead

	C	F	Am
And this	morning the nurse took your	whiskey a	way

	C	G	C
When she	said you're not	right in the	head

	F	C	Am
And	when your wife calls you can't	think of her	name

	C	G
And her	visits get shorter each	day

	C	F	Am
And you	wish in your heart you could	walk out that	door

	C	G7	C
But it	just doesn't	work out that	way

Chorus

	C	F	Am
I can	see you've been thinking a	gain of the	past

	C	Am	G
And the	place where the	tall cedar	grows

	C	F	Am
You re	member the evening you	planted that	tree

	C	G	C
But I'm	sure that no	body elce	does

	F	C	Am
And it	grew to the sky as the	years drifted	by

	C	G
And I'm	sure it's still standing to	day

	C	F	Am
But	Matthew it's somebody	elces tree	now

	C	G7	C
Cause it	just didn't	work out that	way

Chorus

	C	F	Am
So	close your eyes Matthew say good	night to the	world

	C	Am	G
There's a	better one	waiting for	you

	C	F	Am
Your	time here is over, it's	time to move	on

	C	G	C
There's	nothing here	left you can	do

	F	C	Am
But you	could have moved mountains and	danced on the	moon

	C	G
You	could have turned night into	day

	C	F	Am
And you	thought you were doing the	best that you	could

	C	G7	C
But it	just didn't	work out that	way

Chorus twice

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