Buck Owens – Pfft You Were Gone (Guitar)

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G                      C         G
The noises you made at our supper table

                                  D
Your habits, my dear, were surely absurd

G                     C         G
But how many times do I have to tell you

                      D           G
Soup is a dish to be seen and not heard
Chorus:
G              C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                      C             G
Remember you phoned me a-sobbin' and cryin'

                                    D
The dog bit your maw, and drug her around

G                            C               G
You said she looked pale and thought she was dying

                          D         G
I said "Don't worry, I'll buy a new hound."
Chorus:
G              C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                       C            G
I went to your house at three in the morning.

                                          D
You had all them curlers and junk in your hair.

G                                C            G
You would not have scared me and I'd not have run so,

                                 D           G
If you had not looked like you'd wrestled a bear.
Chorus:
G             C         G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                                   C            G
You took out your false teeth, your wig and your glasses.

                                     D
And you shoud've seen the look on my face

G                        C          G
I wanted to kiss you and hug you so tightly.

                             D              G
I guess that I would have if I'd found your face.
Chorus:
G             C         G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                                C         G
I know that you loved me, here's my way of knowing

                                     D
The proofs hanging out right there on the line

G                        C          G
When I see the snow and feel the wind blowing

                             D              G
Your nighties hugging them long johns of mine
Chorus:
G             C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                           C             G
I told you, my darlin', you looked like a gopher.

                                   D
Made you so mad, you haven't spoke since.

G                         C             G
But tell me my darling if you ain't got buck teeth.

                      D 
How do you eat apples through a picket fence?
Chorus:
G             C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                        C             G
When I picked you up for our date last weekend.

                                  D
You looked so pretty in satin and lace.

G                        C          G
But when I bent over and started to kiss you, 

                            D 
You popped a pimple all over my face!
Chorus:
G             C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.

G                         C            G
Down here on the farm the weather gets messy

                               D
Laying around with nothin' to do

G                       C           G
When you went away, you took my cow Bessie

                         D 
I miss her darling, more than I miss you
Chorus:
G             C        G 
Where, where, are you tonight?

                              D
Why did you leave me here all alone?

G                                      
I searched the world over,

C                   G
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
D              G
Phht! you were gone.
The song goes on as long as you can make up verses.