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Song title:      Careless
Original Album:  So Much Water So Close To Home
Other Album:     Live, May 1992
                 Live at The Continental and The Esplanade (1995)

Words and Music by Paul Kelly
Copyright © 1989 Mushroom Records Pty Limited
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing Pty Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


[play: 4/4| G  Bm7 | C |]  [x2]


[play:]  [x2]


| G  Bm7 | C             | G        Bm7 | C
  Ooooooh,   ooh ooh ooh,  ooh, ooh ooh



VERSE1:
Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| G                Bm7           | C
  How many cabs in New York City?  How many angels on a pin?

| G                   Bm7       | C
  How many notes on a saxophone?  How many tears in a bottle of gin?

| G                      Bm7         | C
  How many times did you call my name, knock at the door but you

           | G   Bm7 | C
couldn't get in?



CHORUS1:
Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| C        | G  Bm7     | C
    I know,     I've been   careless



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| G                    Bm7       | C
  I've been wrapped up in a shell, nothing could get through to me

| G            Bm7         | C
  Acted like I didn't know   I had friends and family

| G           Bm7            | C                          | G  Bm7  
  I saw worry in their eyes it didn't look like fear to me



CHORUS2:
Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| C        | G | Bm7      | C          | G  Bm7      | C
    I know       I've been    careless,     I've lost    my tenderness

| G  Bm7      | C          | G  Bm7    | C
     I've been    careless,     I  took    bad care of this



[Harmonica SOLO over VERSE chords]



VERSE3:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| G              Bm7        | C 
  Like a mixture in a bottle, like a frozen-over lake

| G                Bm7           | C 
  Like a long-time painted smile I got so hard I had to crack

| G                  Bm7          | C 
  You were there you held the line, you're the one that brought me back



[repeat CHORUS2]



VERSE4:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G    320003
Bm7  x24232
C    x32010


| G                Bm7           | C
  How many cabs in New York City?  How many angels on a pin?

| G                   Bm7       | C
  How many notes on a saxophone?  How many tears in bottle of gin?

| G                      Bm7         | C
  How many times did you call my name, knock at the door but you couldn't get in?

| G                     Bm7       | C            | G Bm7             | C
  How many stars in the Milky Way?  How many ways       can you lose a friend?



[repeat CHORUS2]


[fade]