Things are Really Getting Tight

Guitar slightly lower in key Original key Bb (app.) Here capo 1st fret

Intro: a g# g / F# / B / E / D A / D A /


A                            B
Just got into town upon the midnight train
E               A
Didn’t have a place to go
F#                B
Walking with my sorrows in the wind and rain
                 E
Destination never known

A                       B
Pockets full of nothing in my overcoat
E             A
Ventilation in my shoes
F#                 B
Thought of all the good times as an antidote
E                      A
Man, I really had the blues


                      F#     B    E           A
What a way to spend a night
                      F#     B    E          D A D A
Things are really getting tight

Tried to get a ride inside a limousine
Hoping I could rest my feet
Don’t know where you’re going, only where you’ve been
Don’t know who you’re gonna meet

Saw a fella stopping in a silver cloud
Thought it couldn’t be for me
As I turned away, I heard her call out loud
Told me that her seat was free

What a way to spend a night
Things are really getting tight

Took me to a mansion on the edge of town
Told me not to look so sad
Said she couldn’t bear to see me looking down
She gave me everything she had

What a way to spend a night, yeah huh, oh yeah
Things are really getting tight, yeah yeah
What a way, what a way, what a way, what a way, what a way, what a way, what a way, what a way, yeah
What a way
Things are really getting tight, hey, yeah
What a way to spend a night
Yeah
What a way, what a way, yeah
Things are really getting tight
Yeah yeah…

By Pete Ham