The Go-Betweens – You Cant Say No Forever (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

Em#5 02201x (played x79988 - without capo - by the band) * always strum once [Intro] |N.C. |N.C. |N.C. |N.C.
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[Verse 1]
Em                   Em#5
You can have hearing loss

Em                            Em#5
When your boyfriend says he's boss

       Bm                G
You're scared - of a new endeavor

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Em                   Em#5
What can be tempting you?

Em                  Em#5
Who can be tempting you

    Bm               G
You look - like a winter

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Bm*                  Am*
 You can't say no forever

Bm*                  Am*
 You can't say no forever

  G   C   
I've tri---ed
|G Em |C D |G [Verse 2]
Em                  Em#5
Run, if you have to run

Em            Em#5
Up to the mountain

    Bm                      G
Air a writer's - retreat maybe

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Em                   Em#5
Sheltered and lonely there

  Em                      Em#5
A fireplace and a rocking chair

  Bm             G
You - understand me

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Bm*                  Am*
 You can't say no forever

Bm*                    Am*
 You can't say no-o forever

  G   C   
I've tri---ed
|G Em |C D |G [Chorus]
Bm                     Am
 You can't say no in December

Bm                      F#m
 As the trees lined the drive

Bm                    Am
 I know your family remembers

      G      C  G
Me by your side
[Verse 3]
Em                        Em#5
Night, as your clothes discard

   Em                 Em#5
He asks "was your day hard?"

  Bm                G
you - can barely answer

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 Em                      Em#5
"Yes my world's tumbling down

Em                    Em#5
Stone by stone to the ground"

Bm                       G
Please - take out the garbage

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[Chorus]
Bm                     Am
 You can't say no in December

Bm                           F#m
 A piano played by a child's hand

Bm                  Am
 Drifts over the verandah

        G    C   G
And I'm your man
[Outro]
          Bm*                  Am*
And I say, you can't say no forever

Bm*                  Am*
 You can't say no foreve---r

Bm*                  Am*
 You can't say no foreve---r

Bm*                    Am*
 You can't say no-o foreve---r

  G   C      G 
I've tri---ed

Em     C D        G
 And I-I kno-ow why---

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