Simple, country flavoured song from The Quo. From the album In The Army Now.



         E                 B                        E    E7

I got an invitation from a girl I used to know back home

          A                 C#m       F#    B

It was an invitation asking me to telephone

               E              E7

She said, it's getting lonely here

              A                Am

And I've been gone for close a year

           E                            B                        E

I took the first flight out to meet the girl I used to know back home



C#m, B E

C#m



    B      E                         B                       E    E7

She met me off the flight, a million dollars in her long red gown

       A                          C#m              F#   B

With a man in a black hat just to drive us back to town

        E                  E7

Now the faces all look the same

            A                        Am

And all the places have the same old names

         E                                 B                        A

But in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home

          E                                 B                        E

Yes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home



A           B              E

 Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on

A           B                 C#m

 Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone

           A                      B

What can I say to you, what can I say to you?

          E                                 B                        E

Yes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home



C#m, B E

C#m, B E

C#m, B E

C#m, B A B





It took another year before I started getting itchy toes

And then I had to leave, but that's the way the story goes

Well I reckon if she'd made me stay

I'd never live to see another day

I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home



Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on

Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone

What can I say to you, what can I say to you?

I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home

     E       C#m           B    E

Back home, I left the girl back home

C#m              B    E 

 I left the girl back home

C#m              B    E

 I left the girl back home

C#m              B    E

 I left the girl back home

C#m              B    E

 I left the girl back home