[Intro] 
F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute)  Bm (ring)
 
E                   D7                   F#m           A7
Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah.
E             D7
You loved me, too,
F#m                                A7
So how come you just sit there and laugh
              Bm
And laugh and laugh and laugh ?
Bm                   C#m
Things just can't be this way
                 F#m
And not for very long
F#m                              D
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
                E                       F#m    Bm
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is.
 
E              D7                   F#m                 A7
And I tried to love you in my own way, I think that you know I did.
E               D7
But to have you here, 
F#m                              A7        Bm
to see you living, oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
           C#m
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead
F#m                              D
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah,
E                       F#m               G  Ab
Our love affair is just history, yes it is.
 
A            G  Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A            G  Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A            G  Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
             F#m             Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
 

 
A            G  Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A            G  Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A            G  Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
             F#m             Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
 
E                   D7          F#m              A7
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah.
E                   D7
You wonder if there is, whoa another me
F#m                  A7
Now how can that be, how can it be ?
Bm                         C#m                F#m
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ?
F#m                              D
I just got toni-ni-ni-night
                E                F#m
Our love affair said it's just a history
                D
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie,
E                     F#m
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely,
    A7
I'm never too lonely.
 
D
It's over baby,
E                     F#m
Where were you when I wanted ya
              A7
And needed ya right by my side ?
          D     E     F#m               A7
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving,
D     E     F#m         A7
Baby, don't you hear me cry ?
D     E     F#m         A7
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried,
D     E     F#m         A7
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried,
D     E     F#m         G  Ab A
Oh baby, oh babe, whoa.