| B | E | |
| I saw you with your new love | today |
| F# | E | B | |
| Al | though I tried to turn my head and | look the other | way |
| B | E | |
| Just | being there so close to you was more than I could | bare |
| F# | B | |
| Alt | hough I tried I can't forget about our love a | fair |
| B | F# | |
| Congratatulations was so hard to | say |
| F# | E | B | |
| As I shook your new love hands you | looked the other | way |
| B | |
| Alt | hough my dreams have ended |
| E | |
| I've tried to smile and | say |
| F# | B | |
| I'm the loser but congratulations any | way |
| SOLO |
| B | E | |
| I know its foolish to keep loving | you |
| F# | E | B | |
| But | I can't hide my broken heart no | matter what I | do |
| B | E | |
| Maybe someday I'll forget the love we shared | somehow |
| F# | B | |
| But | let me be the first to say congratulations | now |
| B | F# | |
| Congratatulations was so hard to | say |
| F# | E | B | |
| As I shook your new love hands you | looked the other | way |
| B | |
| Alt | hough my dreams have ended |
| E | |
| I've tried to smile and | say |
| F# | B | |
| I'm the loser but congratulations any | way |
| F# | B | |
| I'm the loser but congratulations any | way |
| Central Songs(BMI) |
| >From The Bakersfield Bound CD |
| Sugar Hill Records 1996 |