(This
Could Be) The Last Time (Difford/Tilbrook)
(NB Chords marked with > slide up from chord a half-tone lower.
eg., >A plays as Ab->A. Totally optional, of course :-)
Intro: (fade in on) C# F#m
Am E Am E
E D >A >A
I've been totally re-strung
E D >A >A
I'm in tune and I'm in love
F# B E
I'm a piano that's made out of fruit
D >A >A
I'm the frog she chose to kiss
E D >A >A
Perhaps not a handsome prince
F# B E
There is nothing I feel I've got to prove
C# F#m
If I fall in love again it could be the last time
C# F#m
If I fall in love again will I repeat
D >A >A >A
The mistakes that I made
D A >E >E E NC
And then make them again like a creep
D >A >A >A
This could be the last time
D A >E >E E A
This could be the last time for me.
If it's happiness you crave
Won't you look at me today
I'm smiling like the cat with all the cream
There's a swagger in my walk
A grade A in my report
I'm the salmon who made it back upstream
Instr:A F#m7 A F#m7
A D
>A >A >A D A
>E >E >E >E
I'm a slightly chipped antique
In a market going cheap
That someday will be worth a thousand pounds
I've shed the walls of my cocoon
Normal service has resumed
There's no need to paint a face on this clown.
Transcribed by Victor Ducedre [victord@netrover.com]