"Sheila Don't Remember" by Jude Cole
Written by Jude Cole and George M. Green
From the album "I Don't Know Why I Act This Way"
Island Records, 1995
Transcribed by Kevin Ross ([email protected])
Updated May, 2002 by Chris Nastally ([email protected])
G G/F Em
C
G G/F Em
D
G
C G
D
I'm the old man at the dance hall, I'm the young man in his grave,
G
C G
D
I'm the one you're gonna cry for when you find I've gone away
Em
C G
D
There's a phone booth on a corner a thousand miles from here
G
C G
D
With a thousand miles between us, she could whisper in my ear
CHORUS:
Em
C G
D
But Sheila don't remember our secret little sin
Em
C G
D G
No, Sheila don't remember where my hands have been
G G/F Em D
There's a letter in my pocket, there's a stone inside my shoe,
There's a footprint in the yard where a man walked on the moon
G
C
G
D
Sail on wind, sail on water, roll on wheels down ancient roads
G
C
G
D
This heart can only take me where the angels fear to go
CHORUS 2:
But Sheila don't remember the way she wasted me
Or the lovers who have suffered against her memory
G C G D
C
D
Never knew the peace of understanding, never knew the joy of no regret
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G
C
How could you let me do those things to you and just forget,
aaah
G
forget
(soft picking) G G Em C-D
G C G D
Em C G D
REPEAT FIRST CHORUS
G
D
G C
Where my hands have been
G
D
G C
Where my hands have been
G
D
G C
Where my hands have been
G
D
G C--G
Where my hands have been
MAIN CHORDS
G C D Em
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