Why You Been Gone So Long Chords by David Allan Coe

_ [Ab] _ _ [G] Every time it rains, [C]
Lord, I run to my window.
[G] All I do is hang my [D] head in awe.
_ _ [G] I listen to that thunder [Em] roar and hear,
_ _ [C] _ [G] [Am] tell me baby, why you be,
[G] _ _ _ _ tell me baby, why,
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ tell me baby, why you _ [D] _ _ _ [G] be,
[Em] the wolf is scratching at my door [C] and I can hear that roar.
[G] _ _ [D] Tell me baby, [G] why you, _ _ _ _ _
somebody [C] said,
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
with a big old man from San [D] Antonio,
_ _ _ [G]
said I'm a [Em] fool to try and forgive,
but for [C] today, no.
[G] Tell me baby, [D] why you been [G] gone so long? _ _
Tell me baby, why you be,
[C] _ [Em] _ [G] _ _
tell me baby, why you been gone,
[D] _ _ _
[G] the wolf is scratching at [Em] my door and I can hear,
_ [G] _ _
tell me [D] baby, why you been,
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Lord, there ain't a thing to [C] do,
well I guess I'll go get stoned.
[G] Let the past paint [Am] pictures on [Dm] my [D] head. _ _
[G] Drink a fifty [C] thunderbird and smoke my way back home.
[G] Tell me [A] baby, why you been [G] gone so long? _ _
Tell me baby, why you been gone so [C] long?
You been [G] gone, _
tell me baby, why you been [D] _ _ _ _
[G] gone_
The wolf is scratching at my [Em] door and I can hear that roar,
[G] _ _
tell me [D] baby, why you been [G] gone so, _ _ _
tell me baby, why you been,
[C] _ _ [G] _ _
tell me baby, why you been [D] gone so _ _ [G] long.
the wolf is scratching at my door and [C] I can hear
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _