Am
You howled like a wolf
G
You howled like a child
    Fsus4                        F
You howled like a ghost from the grave
Am
I get to your closet door, 
G
You where in there on the floor
        Fsus4                  F
I said "open up" and you said "go away!"

        G               F
And you howled, and you howled
    G                F
You howled all night long
Fsus4
I pretended not to hear you
         F             C
I didn't know what was wrong! 

Am
When the next day came, well, 
G
You were on your way
Fsus4
You didn't take much, 
F
Just a couple of things
Am
And you didn't leave a note, 
G
But I knew you had to go
Fsus4                         F
You had to go and try to find anything.
         G                       F
I just wish and I hope you'll be OK
       G                         F
I just wish and I hope you'll be OK
      Fsus4                   F               C
And I knew that you'd be back here again one day.

        Am
I got a call from the hospital
G                             Fsus4        F
They said you broke your arm hopping off a train
           Am                                       G
You hadn't made it very far before you ran into bad luck
       Fsus4                               F
So I borrowed a car, I came and picked you up
G                                    F
I brought you home, I brought you home
G                                   F
I brought you home, I brought you home
Fsus4                                        F
With bruises on your face, that cast on your arm, 
C
And a cut across your nose.
                   Am                         G
You said, "let me explain, I was on the wrong train
                      Fsus4            F
It was going the wrong way so I jumped off."
Am
And I said, "that's insane, 
                G
You could have died out there that day
                      Fsus4          F
Why wouldn't you just wait until it stopped?"

         G              F
And you howled, and you howled
       G                         F
Out in that cold field where you laid
         Fsus4        F
You said what could I do, 
C
I was on the wrong train
Am
So you made it to your feet, 
                        G
You walked along those barren trees
                    Fsus4                     F
You followed power lines until you found the road.
               Am
And the first car that came by, 
           G
They saw you and they stopped
                Fsus4                     F
It was a rabbit hunter and his friend the cop.

    G                F      G        F
And they dropped you off outside the hospital
Fsus4
They gave you pills for the pain,
F 
They put that cast for your arm
C
But the howling never stopped.
              Fsus4           F
Because that wasn't what was wrong
        Am                F
No that wasn't what was wrong, 
         Fsus4          Am                G
No that wasn't what was wrong with you at all.