Only When You're Lonely:The Grass Roots.
#96 on BB Hot 100 on DUNHILL Records in
1966.
INTRO: D
#1.
D
Only when you're lonely do you come knockin'
A
at my door.
Knowin' that I'll be there to give you what
D
you're looking for.
D G E
All of your so called friends have left you fall.
CHORUS:
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G A D Bm
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.
#2.
D Em7
I'm not kidding myself, I know just where I fit in
your plans.
A
So, don't you, start kidding yourself, I'm not the
D
fool you think I am.
G E
Oh, you toy with me just like I was your rubber ball.
CHORUS:
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G A D
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.
BRIDGE:
G A
I don't mind (I don't mind) comes the time, I spend
D
with you is precious to me.
G A
And though it's true (though it's true) I'll need you.
D Gbm
(I'll be with you)..oh, it's alright cause I like having
Bm A
you around me.
CHORUS:
D A Em7
Only, when you're lonely do you come knockin' at my door.
A
Knowin' somehow I'll be there like the too many times
D
I've been before.
G E
Oh, loving you I know is my biggest fault.
CHORUS:
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D Bm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G A D
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.
OUTRO:
......D Bm D Bm....G.....(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.