F      C/G
E|---0-------0---|
B|---1| -------1---|
G|---2-------0---|
D|---3-------2---|
A|---3-------3---|
E|---0-------3---|


[Verse]
C/G                 F
I know a girl she's blonde and free
                      G
Turns 21 on New Year’s Eve
C/G                     F
Everytime i see her she clings to me
                             G
Cause thats what young girls do
C/G                      F
Shes fire on her own she knows me well
                      G
Never gets mad at the storys i tell
C/G                          F
Shes an old soul living in a cheap motel
G              C/G
Travelin to by sea


[Chorus]
F                    C/G
I been up and i been down
           F               G
And i been away and i been around
C/G                  F
And i been mopin all around this town
G                       C/G
Waiting for loretta too long


[Verse]
C/G
Well i knew a girl
           F
I knew her family too
                                     G
And theyd all try to skin me if they only knew
     C/G                   F
But it only happened for a time or two
           G                        C/G
I couldn't hold her all through the storm
C/G
Well shes a comfort in the rain
       F
Shes a walk in the park

Shes cold in the day
G
Cool when its dark
     C/G                       F                     pause
And i came outside and she was standing on my car
          G                         C/G
She don't like it when i tell her no


[Chorus]
F                           C/G
Well i been up and i been down
       F               G
I been away and i been around
      C/G                 F
And i been mopin all around this town
G                      C/G
Waitin for loretta too long


[Verse]
C/G                             F
Well i met a girl she liked the way i smelled
                                                G
Thought it was a little bit weird but i thought what the hell
      C/G                      F
So we road all around til the morning fell
            G                 C/G
I liked her freckles in the sunrise
C/G                         F
So i saw her again but it wasn't too long
                                   G
Before she asked me to sing her a loretta song
     C/G                          F
And thats about the time everything went wrong
        G                     C/G
I never saw or heard from her again
 C/G
Cause she knew better than that
      F
And she knew better than me
                                         G
And she could see all the things i couldn't yet see
  C/G                     F
And she told me id get it eventually
           G
I'm still looking i guess


[Chorus]
F                        C/G
So i been up and i been down
            F               G
And i been away and i been around
     C/G                        F
And i been mopin all around this town
   G                     C/G
Waiting for loretta too long