Five Minutes Chords - Gretchen Peters

Intro

C C/B Am Am/G Fmaj7 ||: / / / / | / / / / :||2x

Verse 1

C C/B Am Am/G I've got five minutes ...to sneak a cigarette, F G Five minutes to my - self, C C/B Am Am/G Back behind the screen door of Andy's Luncheonette, F G C Csus4 C And I ain't got time to worry 'bout my health

Verse 2

C C/B Am Am/G My boss, Andy, says I smoke myself to death, F G Andy, he reminds me some of you, C C/B Am Am/G Back when you were Romeo, and I was Juliet, F G C Csus4 C West Texas Capu - let and Monta - gue

Verse 3

C/B Am Am/G F Now I don't think too much a - bout you anymore, C C/E G We weren't much more than kids, G/B Am Am/G F It was nearly twenty years a - go I shut and locked that door, C C/B Am Am/G

{tab: Now I've got five|------ minutes,}

F G C C/B Am Am/G Fmaj7 Not much time to remi - nice ||: / / / / | / / / / :|| 2x

Verse 4

C C/B Am Am/G Most nights I come home from work, and I pour a glass of wine, F G Some - times it's three, or four, before I stop, C C/B Am Am/G And Jessie makes a sandwich... if I sleep through supper - time, F G C Csus4 C And she leaves me on the couch to sleep it off

Verse 5

C C/B Now, Jessie just turned seventeen, Am Am/G And she's wild as she can be, F G And there ain't nothing I can do, C C/B Am Am/G Last weekend she ran off to meet a boy in Tennes - see, F G C Csus4 C Just like I used to run to you

Verse 6

C/B Am Am/G F I gave her hell, when she came home this afternoon, C C/E G Mascara running down her face, G/B Am Am/G F Seems like history repeats it - self, and it ain't up to you, C C/B Am Am/G

{tab: And in five|---- minutes .^.^.}

F G C C/B Am Am/G Fmaj7 ...your whole life can change ||: / / / / | / / / / :|| 2x

Verse 7

C C/B Am Am/G Now, Andy, he's good to me, and I can see it in his eyes, F G He'd love to take your place, C C/B Am Am/G But something deep in - side me just ...withers up and dies, F G C Csus4 C To make love to him, and only see your face

Verse 8

C/B Am Am/G F Somehow I've let my - self go gently down the stream, C C/E G A fine ex - ample I have set, G/B Am Am/G Between the working and the living, F And the ghosts that haunt my dreams, C C/B Am Am/G

{tab: I've got five|------ minutes,}