Intro: D G D G D G A D

Verse 1:
          D           G
There’s a starry eyed woman. 
    D            G
Who lives up the road. 
  D             G                 A              D
I pick her wild flowers, Lord she still tells me no. 
D            G        D             G
I don’t know why, but I want her so bad. 
          D      G        A          D
Guess you always want what you can’t have. 

Chorus:
  G            D               G              D
I guess that’s life, oh that’s just the way it goes. 
        G                    D                            A            D
Well you won’t get something in your hands that you ain't never got to hold. 
      G                D                   G                D
And I don’t know why I need her, but she’s about to drive me mad. 
               G       D         A         D
But I guess you always want what you can’t have. 

(repeat Intro)

Verse 2:
D                         G           D         G
There’s a little piece of land, where I used to go. 
      D              G                      A              D
Where the river runs clear and wild, oh and time, it moves slow. 
    D                G                 D           G
The old man he won’t sell it, no matter how much I ask. 
          D      G         A         D     
Guess you always want what you can’t have. 

Chorus:
  G            D               G              D
I guess that’s life, oh that’s just the way it goes. 
        G                    D                            A            D
Well you won’t get something in your hands that you ain't never got to hold. 
           G                D                     G                D
And when I drive past that old man's land, I just shake my had and laugh. 
            G       D         A         D
I guess you always want what you can’t have.

(repeat intro x2)

Chorus:
  G            D               G               D
I guess that’s life, oh that’s just the way it goes. 
         G                   D                            A            D
Well you won’t get something in your hands that you ain't never got to hold. 
      G                 D                    G              D
And I don’t know why we need it, it makes us forget what we had. 
               G       D         A         D
But I guess you always want what you can’t have.