Nina Simone – Alone Again Naturally (Guitar)

     E           Emaj7
I remember this afternoon

          G#m
When my sister came into the room

        Bm
She refused to say how my father was

       C#                C#7
But I knew he'd be dying soon

    F#m                       Am        Am6
And I was oh so glad, and it was oh so sad

        E            Emaj7                               D#
That I realized that I despised this man I once called Father

 G#m                 Bm           C#7
In his hanging on, with fingers clutching

    F#m
His body now just eighty-eight pounds

  Am                 Am6
Blinded eyes still searching

 E                 Emaj7            G#m             C#7
For some distant dream, that had faded away at the seams

F#m       B         E
Dying alone, naturally

   E               Emaj7
I was his favorite child

        G#m
I had him a little while

           Bm                               C#           C#7
Just as long as I could play the piano and smile a little smile

      F#m
And Just when I needed him most

         Am       Am6
He was already a ghost

        E            Emaj7
And for all my life there were promises

                            D#     D#7
And they always have been broken

G#m                 Bm           C#7
Leaving me alone with all my troubles

          F#m
Not ever once touching me and saying

  Am                       Am6
"Daughter, I'll help you get over"

 E              Emaj7
Now he's fading away

   G#m             C#7
And I'm glad to say

        F#m      B       E
He's dying at last, naturally

          E             Emaj7         G#m
It's a very sad thing to see that my mother with all her heart

  Bm                                       C#              C#7
Believed the words that the Bible said "Til death do us two part"

    F#m
For her that was forever and ay

      Am                 Am6
He deceived her night and day

     E           Emaj7
How could some English words so small

            D#      D#7
Affect someone so strangely?

 G#m                         Bm       C#7
Taking her away from us, her soul included

     F#m                                       Am         Am6
She might as well be gone with him, all the children are excluded

 E            Emaj7       G#m     C#7
Loneliness is hell, I know so well

    F#m       B       E
For I'm alone, naturally

C#
I waited for three weeks for him to die

C#m
I waited for three weeks for him to die

C#5
Every night he was calling on me

C#m     C#5
I wouldn't go to him

B
I waited for three weeks for him to die

B                      B7
Three weeks for him to die

 E               Emaj7
Every night I went out

G#m
Every night I had a fight

    Bm
It didn't matter who it was with

 C#                        C#7
'Cause I knew what it was about

        F#m
And if you could read between lines

    Am                 Am6
My Dad and I close as flies

     E                    Emaj7
I loved him then, and I loved him still

                       D#      D#7
That's why my heart's so broken

G#m                  Bm          C#7
Leaving me to doubt God in His mercy

     F#m                           Am              Am6
And if He really does exist, then why did he desert me?

E              Emaj7
When he passed away

G#m                 C#7
I smoked and drank all day

F#m         B          E
Alone again, naturally