Chords for Opal You Asked Me

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[Bb] _ [F] _ _ Hello, Opal?
It's Frank.
[C] _ _ [Am] Did the [Eb] man [F] give you [Em] the divorce papers?
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_ [Fm] Opal, you can call me anything [F] you want to.
You [C] always have.
You [F] know, [A] you've cussed [C] me ever since [Gm] we've been [G] married and [C] called me every name in the book.
[Bb] And you know that I've never raised my voice to you, [F] and I'm not going to today.
_ [C] _ No, I'm not going to get mad at you.
_ [F] I just can't live with you anymore.
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[F] _ [Cm] _ You [Eb] know, I never would have married you, Opal, but Daddy never would let us [Bb] go [Cm] with any girls.
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I married [C] the first [A] girl I [G] met, and that was you.
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[G] Now, [Dm] simmer down a little.
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[F] Believe me, [C] I did what I [Eb] had to [F] do.
[C] Don't [F] make me go into [G] it.
_ [C] You can [G] have everything we've got.
[Gm] The house, the car, [C] the money in the bank, the muffler shop.
Sell it, do anything you want to do with it.
_ Let's call it quits. _
We both made a mistake, and [Eb] let's [Am] just drop it.
[Cm] _ _ Now, I'm getting a little tired of this abuse, [C] Opal.
_ _ I [Gb] called you because I thought it [G] was the thing to do.
I just [Gb] quietened down [G] a little bit. _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] Okay, [Bb] _ [Fm] okay, [Eb] _ [C] okay, Opal.
[F] _ Remember, [C] _
[F] [Bb] you asked [Cm] me.
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[Bb] _ _ [G] _ [Gb] [Cm] I'm going to tell you.
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[Bb] _ [F] _ [C] I guess it all came [F] to a [C] head that night, that [F] open [C] house over at the Cooper's.
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_ _ [Cm] I begged [F] you to buy a new evening [G] dress for that occasion, [C] but no.
No, you wouldn't do it.
You had to wear that old faded [D] formal [C] that you wore to your last high school [Em] prom.
I was so pretty in [C] this dress, and all the boys wanted to dance with me, and they kept trying [F] to get me to go [D] outside.
Oh, [C] I got [Bb] sick of [G] hearing you tell that [C] over and over.
[Bb] _ [Gm] You know, the top [Eb] of that [E] dress [F] kept [Eb] falling down, and I kept pulling [C] it up.
[Eb] _ [C] You know, the [F] years kind [C] of take their toll on us, Opal.
It wasn't as much indecent as it was sickening.
_ No wonder it kept falling down.
_ Not only was it a strapless gown, and at [G] your [C] age, but because [G] you were half drunk when you put the dress on,
[F] you didn't put anything under it. _
[C] _ _ And your hair.
[F] _ _
Women [G] just don't wear waves and [Abm] ringlets anymore.
[C]
You ask me now.
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Well, then a [Abm] couple of [C] days later, when I was talking to that insurance man,
[Gm] and you kept stumbling into the room [G] there and interrupting,
[Dm] well, [Eb] Opal, that man didn't want any more of your [Cm] fudge. _
[Eb] _ [F] _ [Cm] _ [Ebm] _ [C] Another [Fm] thing, did you [G] ever notice _ [C] [F] how [Cm] that when you walked through the house, [G] you just [C] kind of stomped?
Yeah, you just stomped [Bb] along.
_ _ [C] Oh, I used to hate to walk anywhere with [Cm] you.
_ _ [Gb] _ [C] And when you [Gb] would [Gm] drink out of a [B] glass or [C] a cup or whatever, you [Bb] just kind [F] of sucked it out and made that funny [Abm] sound.
[C] Oh, that [Eb] used to [C] disgust me.
I [Gm] wanted to hit you right in the mouth. _ _
_ [C] You ask me.
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[C] Well, Opal, [G] there are a [C] lot of other things.
In fact, in the last five years, I don't [Cm] think you've done anything that didn't either make me [G] mad or sick.
_ _ _ [C] Well, I'm on my [F] way to the remote part of [E] Alaska. _
[C] _ [E] I'll be [F] living in an [Gb] igloo up there [G] by [Gm] myself, 200 [B] miles from [Eb] the nearest town.
[F] I'll be working for the [G] government, and I'll be [F] spotting aircraft that [G] flies over.
[C]
They say the yearly average is about seven. _ _
Once a year now, I'll go to [F] Point Barra and report at the relay station.
The rest of the time, I'll be out there in [Gb] that igloo by [C] myself, and I'm looking forward [G] to it.
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[C] The last man that had [E] the job [G] went crazy and beat his [Gm] head against the igloo [Em] until he [F] died.
_ That won't [Eb] happen to [C] me.
I can take anything.
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[Gm] Well, [F] Opal, [Gb] [G] keep your chin [Em] up. _ _
_ By [Am] the way, that's another thing, Opal.
Did [G] you ever notice when you talked that you kind of drew your chin [Cm] back and [F] your lips got tight and thin and your neck all [Bb] wrinkled up?
Boy, I wanted to bust you every [C] time you did that.
I knew if I did, I wouldn't be able to stop.
_ _ Well, [G] again, I remind you, Opal, you [F] asked me.
Everything you did [E] was wrong.
[C] You [E] couldn't do [F] anything right.
[C] And now [Gbm] maybe [G] I'll [Gm] finally have a [Abm] little [C] peace of mind.
[Gm] Good luck.
Good luck.
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