Capo: 2

This is a version I learned off a live video of John from an aug. 2008 concert. If you want it to sound exactly like john's version you'll want to finger pick it and in the extra notes (mostly g on the high e string and a high e, f and sometimes d) you'll get where they if you listen to it. Capo 2nd fret

^CI know a guy that's got a lot to lose. He's a ^Fpretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused. He's got ^Cmuscles in his head that ain't never been used. Thinks he own half of this ^Gtown.

^CStarts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose. ^FBeats his old lady with a rubber hose, then he ^Ctakes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes. That's the way that the ^Gworld goes ^C'round.

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^CThat's the way that the world goes 'round. You're ^Fup one day and the next you're down. It's ^Chalf an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown. That's the way that the ^Gworld goes ^C'round. ------------------------------------------------------------- ^CI was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes, when the ^Fradiator broke, water all froze. I got ^Cstuck in the ice without my clothes, naked as the eyes of a ^Gclown.

^CI was crying ice cubes hoping I'd croak, when the ^Fsun come through the window, the ice all broke. I ^Cstood up and laughed thought it was a joke That's the way that the ^Gworld goes ^C'round.

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John Prine - Thats the way the world goes round