| F | Bb | |
| Thank you my | friend |
| F | |
| I sincerely appreciate the | words you say |
| About how she'll cry |
| And how she'll grieve and miss me |
| Bb | |
| When she | goes away |
| F | Bb | |
| Say them | again |
| I need to hear the words once more |
| F | |
| I can't believe |
| How she'll miss me when she's gone |
| And how she'll want to come back home |
| Bb | |
| And never | leave |
| Eb | Bb | |
| But she's | leaving | me |
| Eb | |
| Because she really | wants to |
| F | Bb | |
| And | she'll be happy when she's | gone |
| Bb | Eb | |
| She'll be happy, she'll be so | very happy |
| She'll dance and sing or even |
| F | Bb | |
| Learn to fly and spend her time with | anyone but me |
| SOLO |
| F | Bb | |
| What's that you | say |
| F | |
| That I'll get over her the more that | time goes by |
| But time goes so slow |
| When all I have to do |
| Bb | |
| Is sit | around and cry |
| F | Bb | |
| No she won't be | back |
| F | |
| I'd be a fool to try and fool my | self that way |
| I know she hasn't one regret |
| Because she hasn't had one since |
| Bb | |
| the day she | came to stay |
| Eb | Bb | |
| But she's | leaving | me |
| Eb | |
| Because she really | wants to |
| F | Bb | |
| And | she'll be happy when she's | gone |
| Bb | Eb | |
| She'll be happy, she'll be so | very happy |
| She'll dance and sing and maybe |
| F | Bb | |
| Learn to fly and spend her time with | anyone but me |
| Bb | Eb | |
| And she'll be happy when she's | gone |
| F | Bb | |
| She'll be happy...when she's | gone |
| Bb | Eb | |
| And she'll be happy...when she's | gone |
| F | Bb | |
| She'll be happy...when she's | gone |
| From Lovett Lyle "Joshua Judges Ruth" |
| Curb MCA Records 1982 |
| Michael H Golden Inc/Lyle Lovett(ASCAP) |