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How Many Friends
By The Who
From Who By Numbers, 1975
Written by Pete Townshend
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transcribed by
Justin Fox (also, if you get a chance, check out my band at myspace.com/themisprintsband)
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Capo on 3
F Gm Eb Bb Gm7 F
F I'm feelin' so Gmgood right now
There's a Ebhandsome boy tells me Bbhow I Gm7changed his Fpast
He buys me a Gmbrandy
Eb Or could it be he's Bbreally just Gm7after my Fass?
He likes the Gmclothes I wear
Eb He says he likes a Bbman to Gm7dress in Fseason
But no one Gmelse ever stares,Eb he's being so kinBbd
Gm7 C-->
What's the reason?
[chorus]
C How many Gfriends have IAm reallFy got?
You can count 'em on one Ghand
C How many Gfriends have I Amreally Fgot? G
C How many Gfriends have I Amreally Fgot?
Bb F Bb F Bb F/A Gm Gm7 C
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
Suddenly it's a silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out
Everybody hears me
Well, I look like a fool, now, if I try and I shy out
She knows all of my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who'll stay on late
But now I think I've reached the end
I wonder in the dead of night, how do I rate?
[repeat chorus]
Cm Cm/Bb
It's all like a dream you know
When you're Bbstill up early in the Fmorning
Gm And you all sit toFgether to watch the Ebsun come through
Cm Cm/Bb
But things don't look so good
When you could Abuse a bit of warning
Fm Then you know that no one will ever C/Gspeak the truth about Gyou.
[repeat chorus]
When I first signed the contract, it was more than a handshake then
I know it still is, but there's a plain fact
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs, I get the willies
People know nothing about their own soft guts
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known
How come they bum us up
[repeat chorus]
one of the best songs on the album.