Rab Noakes - Ive Hardly Started Yet

      Rab Noakes - I've Hardly Started Yet


CAPO: 3rd Fret




[INTRO:] C  G-C-G-F    C  G-C-G-F    C  G-C-G-F    C  G-C-G-F    C

[VERSE 1:]
                 G
Bought my ticket, took that bus
F       G       C
One cold Monday morning
                       G
Mid-September, Nineteen-Sixty-Three, I
F       G           C
Paid no heed to the warning
                                G
But they said, don't go too far out from here
     F        G     C
It's twice as far returning
                                G
Looking back I could see nothing for the smoke
        F        G     C
From the bridges I was burning


[CHORUS:]
           F             Em            G      Am
And it's a long way back down to where I come from
            F             C  G
And I've got nothing to forget
          C                    F        C
There's a list of things here I have to do
        Dm      G       C   G-C-G-F    C  G-C-G-F
And I've hardly started yet


[VERSE 2:]
               C                           G
Well, I've been close to trouble, I've been close to death
          F        G         C
I've been close to some fine women
                          G
There are places where I'm always welcome and
F                   G           C
Some where they say, "Don't let him in"
                         G
But I've spent my time in company
        F         G       C
That was faithful and was trying
                              G
Like that black-eyed girl from Birmingham
        F            G     C
Who was with me when I was crying


[CHORUS:]
           F             Em            G      Am
And it's a long way back down to where I come from
            F             C  G
And I've got nothing to forget
          C                    F        C
There's a list of things here I have to do
        Dm      G       C   G-C-G-F
And I've hardly started yet
                    C   G-C-G-F
I've hardly started yet


[VERSE 3:]
               C                    G
Ohh well, I've spent my time working for the day
           F          G      C
When I can leave this joke behind me
                           G
And I don't need you making token gestures
     F     G    C
That casually remind me
                              G
That I'm stuck out here at the break of dawn
       F     G      C
With my faculties diminished
                                     G
That little Hazel has to wait, but it won't be long
       F        G        C
'Til I get this damn song finished


[CHORUS:]
           F             Em            G      Am
And it's a long way back down to where I come from
            F             C  G
And I've got nothing to forget
              C                    F        C
But there's a list of things here I have to do
        Dm      G       C   G-C-G-F
And I've hardly started yet
                    C   G-C-G-F
I've hardly started yet
                    C   G-C-G-F
I've hardly started yet
                    C   G-C-G-F
I've hardly started yet


[OUTRO:] C   G-C-G-F    C   G-C-G-F    C   G-C-G-F         C