| D | G | D | |
| Now and then an | old friend tries to | help me |
| A7 | |
| By telling me there's someone I should | meet |
| D | G | D | |
| But | I don't have the | heart to start all | over |
| A7 | D | |
| 'Cause my heart is laying | at another's | feet. |
| CHORUS |
| D | G | D | |
| You just don't put new | patches on old | garments |
| A7 | E | A7 | |
| I don't want no one else on my | mind |
| D | G | D | |
| I | just don't need no- | body new to | cling to |
| A7 | D | |
| I still love someone I've | known a long, long | time. |
| I have built my world around a mem'ry |
| And she's the only one that I let in |
| Ev'ry-time I've tried to love somebody |
| In my mind I'm loving her again. |
| CHORUS |