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Intro

Lead guitar lick      |  Acoustic pattern (over C chord)
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C
Hey little mama, be my friend.
C
You can be the trouble that you think I'm in. 
              F            C
I'm a lovely man,   Lovely man 
G                      C
Yes I am, I'm a lovely man 

   C 
I traveled the world, the first time in my life 
        C
Fell in love with a woman but she wasn't my wife 
              F            C
I'm a lovely man,   Lovely man 
G                      C
Yes I am, I'm a lovely man 

Am     F            C
Oooh . . . . lovely man  (Keep on a dancin' and a prancin') 
Am   G    C 
Ooo  Hooo Hooo 

(guitar solo over one verse)

C
Livin' high in a house of mirrors 
      C
Let a girl named Delilah cut my hair 
              F            C
I'm a lovely man,   Lovely man 
G                      C
Yes I am, I'm a lovely man 

Am                       G
You never told me when I started out 
       F                     C
I'd be sailin all alone in a sea of doubt 
             Am        F
And end up a lonely, 
       C  
Lonely Man 
Am          G    
  Lonely, 
            C (play acoustic guitar pattern of intro)
Lovely man 

C (same pattern as intro)
Settin' my sight on some bigger things 
C
Mama's old Cadillac and diamond rings 
              F            C
I'm a lovely man,   Lovely man 
G                      C
what I am, it's a lovely man 

Am     F            C
Oooh . . . . lovely man  (Keep on a dancin' and a prancin') 
Am     F            C
Oooh . . . . lovely man 
Am     F            C
Oooh . . . . lovely man 
Am      G/B   F     G          C       G C  
Oooh . . . . . . . . . lovely man