Transpose -4 steps with buttons on the left for original key, (or leave like this
to sing with baritones!). Ask if you want chord fingering help.
Intro: ( F#m E/F# Bm/F# F#m ) x2 ( A-B )x5
A - B A-B A - B A-B
Well I bumped inside the magic man, and he laid some tricks on me
A - B A E-A E-A E-A A-B
He said, "you do need help my friend", I whispered, "obviously"
A - B A-B A - B A-B
He laid a spread of jacks and queens, and he bade me take my pick
A - B A E-A E -A E-A
But every face it had your face, I cried out, "I am sick"
E -B/D# C#m B A B
Sick of hauling your love around, want to run the train alone
E -B/D# C#m B A A-B-C#m-F#m
But the engine tracks straight through your heart, and weighs me like a stone
F#m E/F# Bm/F#
Oh, it's a hard load to love you, it takes up, all my time, having you
F#m F#m E/F# Bm/F# F#m A-B
So familiar, like last life's, nursery rhyme
A - B A-B A - B A-B
So I gave away the pictures, and your golden ring
A - B A E - A E-A E-A A-B
And the phone calls that you sent me, and the silver birds, that sing
A - B A-B A - B A-B
Then the man he told me something, that really brought me down
A - B A E-A E - A E-A
Your things were thrown away, it's true, but you, were still in town
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E -B/D# C#m B A B
Sick of hauling your love around, wanna run the train alone
E -B/D# C#m B A A-B-C#m-F#m
But the engine tracks straight through your heart, and weighs me like a stone
F#m E/F# Bm/F#
Oh, it's a hard load to love you, it takes up, all my time, having you
F#m F#m E/F# Bm/F# F#m A-B
So familiar, like last life's, nursery rhyme
A - B A-B A - B A-B
The magician let a message, it flashes when I hide
A - B A E - A
Accept the chains of loving, accept or else remove yourself, from her side
E -A E-A A-B A - B A-B A - B A-B
And do without her love, and I lay back with a steel chain, I keep it by my side,
A - B A E-A E - A E-A
I could mail, a letter to you but I still, have my pride
E -B/D# C#m B A B
Sick of hauling your love around, wanna run the train alone
E -B/D# C#m B A
But the engine tracks straight through your heart, and weighs me like a stone
E -B/D# C#m B A B
Three times I've sent you back from me, three times my bones gone dry
E -B/D# C#m B A A-B-C#m-F#m
And three times I've seen the shooting shark, lighting up the sky
F#m E/F#
Oh, it's a hard load to love you, babe, it takes my breath away
Bm/F# F#m
The fourth time round, is the last time round, there's nothing else to say
Out solo: ( F#m E/F# Bm/F# F#m ) repeat and fade
