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How Lonely Can You Get

Del McCoury

Key of G · Chords: I II IV V

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Verse 1

G                               C              G
Have you ever been so lonely so blue you could die
         D7                               G
When the one you love no longer cares for you
                             C                   G
When your trouble mind keeps bothering you won't leave you alone
         D7                              G
When you know it’s all over love's grown cold

Verse 2

    C                        G
How lonely oh how lonely how lonely can you get
    A7                        D7
I'd give this wide world over if we had never met
  G                                     C           G
I wouldn't have these lonely nights and days of sad regret
      D7                                       G
Don't mind being lonely but how lonely can you get

Verse 3

                         C                G
I've tried to tell me my troubled mind to live and just forget
      D7                                       G
But I don't find that so easy and never will I guess
                   C                G
I'm locked up in a dream world with dreams and loneliness
    D7                                        G
And every day I ask myself how lonely can you get

Verse 2

    C                        G
How lonely oh how lonely how lonely can you get
    A7                        D7
I'd give this wide world over if we had never met
  G                                     C           G
I wouldn't have these lonely nights and days of sad regret
      D7                                       G
Don't mind being lonely but how lonely can you get

Verse 2

    C                        G
How lonely oh how lonely how lonely can you get
    A7                        D7
I'd give this wide world over if we had never met
  G                                     C           G
I wouldn't have these lonely nights and days of sad regret
      D7                                       G
Don't mind being lonely but how lonely can you get