G
  I didn't mean to leave you hanging on a string like I did"
Gm
"Yeah, well, I mean, if you're seeing another man-"
                  D                                       A                         G
"There's no other man, Freddie. It's just that I've got my own home now; my own life, my own job,
              Gm
I'm a working woman."
                                   D                                                      A
"Yeah, just 'cause a man loses his job doesn't mean you got to go dumping him on his ass."
                                   G
"I can't talk any longer, I gotta go."
                     Gm                                            D
"All right, baby, I guess I'll talk to you later then... some point, have a nice life,
                       A
do what you want, yeah?"

[Chorus]
G            Gm
Suddenly a woman leaves me
     D               A
I've got no job, machine relieved me
G              Gm               D        A
Suddenly I've lost my piece of pie

    G                     Gm
I'm now in mourning and I wear all blue
           D                       A
That's the color you wear when the dead one's you
 G             Gm         D      A
Suddenly I am living in a lie
    G           Gm            D
My woman's off with some other guy

[Verse 2]
G                               Gm                             D                   A
I can remember the first time I saw her, hanging out in one of those singles bars, wearing a
                    G                           Gm
really fancy dress. She was drinking a really expensive mixed drink and smoking one of those
          D                                                A
Marlboro 100s with the big fancy plastic filters on the end. Made her look like she had class,
G                              Gm                    D                A
least I thought so. But then suddenly, bitch left me. All of a sudden, like something suddenly

[Chorus]
G             Gm
Suddenly I'm on my own
      D                       A
I don't hear no rings on the telephone
G                            Gm
And all the rings that I've given her
            D   A
Have been returned

G                   Gm
 I cling to clothes she used to wear
D                         A
Then I try them on and I style my hair
G                Gm             D      A
Suddenly I could never be as fine as she
G                 Gm                         D      
 I've got her eyes but I sure don't have her teeth

[Verse 3]
G                         Gm                                       D
(And I can remember when we would take walks around the public pool and the way she would
          A                                    G                     Gm D   
look at me and the way she would do this whistle and how I would feel, I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try
    A
and show you what it was like)


G Gm D A
G Gm D A
G Gm D A
       Oh man
G Gm D A
G Gm D A
G Gm D A

[Chorus]
G             Gm        D                 A
Suddenly I found myself drinking from the lowest shelf
G                                 Gm            D    A
When all of a sudden I just could not believe my eyes
G                                     Gm                 D
 There goes some guy walking down the street wearing my tie

[Verse 4]
G                                  Gm                 D                             A
(Suddenly I'm not gonna let another man take my woman. Not even death can do us part because when
      G                                Gm                                D           A
I'm an angel, I'm gonna come down from Heaven, and I'm gonna buy her a brand new Cadillac. I'm gonna
                G        Gm D                        A                       G
buy her a brand new Cadillac. Let me tell you why, let me tell everybody why. Because in the 50s,
Gm               D              A               G                                               Gm
it was pompadours, and in the 60s, it was peace. In the 70s, it was bell-bottoms, I don't know why
                 D                 A           G                                 Gm
but.. In the 80s, Ronald Reagan, BMWs, sushi - back home I used that for fertilizer. But in the 90s,
D                         A
it's love, love is the new fad. I love you, good God almighty"

G Gm D A
G Gm D A

[Outro]
-slow, single strums-
G              Gm             D
Suddenly I have found myself alive