Status Quo – Invitation chords

Tabbed by: Belavista ManOn: 17/12/2010E-mail: anthonybentley@hotmail.co.uk

Simple, country flavoured song from The Quo. From the album In The Army Now.

         E                 B                        E    E7I got an invitation from a girl I used to know back home
          A                 C#m       F#    BIt was an invitation asking me to telephone
               E              E7She said, it's getting lonely here
              A                AmAnd I've been gone for close a year
           E                            B                        EI took the first flight out to meet the girl I used to know back home

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    B      E                         B                       E    E7She met me off the flight, a million dollars in her long red gown
       A                          C#m              F#   BWith a man in a black hat just to drive us back to town
        E                  E7Now the faces all look the same
            A                        AmAnd all the places have the same old names
         E                                 B                        ABut in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home
          E                                 B                        EYes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home

A           B              E Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on
A           B                 C#m Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone
           A                      BWhat can I say to you, what can I say to you?
          E                                 B                        EYes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home

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C#m, B E
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It took another year before I started getting itchy toes
And then I had to leave, but that's the way the story goes
Well I reckon if she'd made me stay
I'd never live to see another day
I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home

Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on
Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone
What can I say to you, what can I say to you?
I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home
     E       C#m           B    EBack home, I left the girl back home
C#m              B    E  I left the girl back home
C#m              B    E I left the girl back home
C#m              B    E I left the girl back home
C#m              B    E I left the girl back home