I've Been A Long Time Leavin':Roger Miller.
-Album - Words And Music - on SMASH Records in
1966.
INTRO: Eb
CHORUS:
Eb Ab
I've been a fool, I've been a foo-ooo-ooool, forgivin'
Eb
you each time you done me wrong.
Bb Eb Ab
I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long
Eb
time gone.
#1.
Eb Ab
Loved you so much, loved you so mu-u-huuuch, I stayed
Eb
around when I should've moved along.
Bb Eb Ab
I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long
Eb
time gone.
#2.
Eb
I say, hi there, high line, hello highway, here come a
big old semi my way.
Eb
I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come but the truck
goes by and he looks like he's flyin'.
Eb
And he whoops the big legs on my Levi's, they go woop,
woop, woop, woop, woop!!
CHORUS:
Eb Ab
I've been a fool, I've been a foo-ooo-ooool, forgivin'
Eb
you each time you done me wrong.
Bb Eb Ab
I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long
Eb
time gone.
#3.
Eb
I say, hi there, high line, hello highway, here come a
big old semi my way.
Eb
I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come but the truck
goes by and he looks like he's flyin'.
Eb
And he whoops the big legs on my Levi's, they go woop,
woop, woop, woop, woop!!
CHORUS:
Eb Ab
I've been a fool, I've been a foo-ooo-ooool, forgivin'
Eb
you each time you done me wrong.
Bb Eb Ab
I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long
Eb
time gone.
OUTRO:
Eb Ab Eb
Gone, gone, gone..gone, gone, gone..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.