Life's Gone And Slipped Away:Jerry Wallace.
#23 on BB Hot Country on MERCURY Records
in 1964.
INTRO:
C G D C G
(Before you know it, life's gone and slipped away.)
#1.
G C G
Funny how life can slip away, before you know
Am7 D
what's happened it's gone.
G C G
You always think there'll be another day.
C G D G
But before you know it, life's gone and slipped away.
#2.
G C G
Ask the lonely man whose hair is silvery gray.
G Am7 D
If he can count the hearts he's broken in his days..
G C G
I'll bet he'll bow his head and softly say..
C G D G.....Eb
son, before you know it, life's gone and slipped away.
#3.
Ab Db Ab
I know a lady who lived her life at play.
Ab Bbm Eb
And I remember when she was so young and gay.
Ab Db Ab
But now alone she cries for yesterdays.
Db Ab Eb Ab
Before she knew it, life had gone and slipped away.
OUTRO:
Db Ab Eb Bb
Yes, before you know it, life has gone and slipped
G Db Ab
a..way.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.