The Beautiful South – Old Red Eyes Is Back (Ukulele)

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G
Old Red eyes is back

A7             C                G
Red from the night before the night before

G                A7               C      G
Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door

              G
Old Red's in town

      A7              C               G
And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound

G           A7              C               G
Just adding to the wrinkles on his deadly frown

              G                A7             C       G
They're only red from all the tears that I should've shed

              G                A7             C      G
They're only red from all the women that I could've wed

             G               A7     C          G
So when you look into these eyes I hope you realise

                     G
They could never be blue

A7                   C
They could never be blue

G                    G
They could never be blue

A7                   C     G
They could never be blue

               G
Listen up Old Red

     A7            C               G
You never listened to a word the doctor said

G           A7             C               G
He told you if you drank another you'd be dead

                 G
Old Red eyes is back

       A7               C             G
His shoulders ache all over and his brain is sore

G           A7               C            G
He pours a drink and listens to his body thaw

              G                  A7             C        G
They're only red from all the thoughts unused inside my head

              G                 A7                 C      G
They're only red from all the things I could have done instead

             G               A7     C          G
So when you look into these eyes I hope you realise

                     G
They could never be blue

A7                   C
They could never be blue

G                    G
They could never be blue

A7                   C     G
They could never be blue

 G          A7              C G/B
Blue is a street without an end

 G           A7         C  G/B
Red is the colour of my hell

 G/D         A7           C    G/B
Blue is a greeting from a friend

 G/D         A7      C      G
Red is the colour of farewell

            G
Old Red he died

     A7             C               G
And every single landlord in the district cried

G          A7               C            G
An empty bottle of whisky laying by his side

   G           A7           C         G
A lazy little tear running from each eye

                     G
They could never be blue

A7                   C
They could never be blue

G                    G
They could never be blue

A7                   C     G
They could never be blue