Tonart: Db major
Verse 1
F#
B
Gil bert was just 18 years of age
F#
when he first took himself a wife.
But she proved to be unfaithful,
G#
so the swag and open
C#
robe became his life.
F#
He turned bitter against all women,
only used them when he could.
B
And he only had contempt
F#
B
F#
for other men
B
He worked and drank and
Except for one,
B
F#
C#
F#
a mangy old blue -heeler for a friend
B
Years ago old Gilbert found a puppy
F#
by the roadside left to die
Hungry and frightened,
C#
beneath the frosty southern sky,
F#
Gilbert picked him up and raised him,
and a bond of friendship grew,
B
a friendship that was never
B
Then one day Gilbert woke to find
F#
his old track mate was gone
B
F#
C#
And he began a search that never was to
F#
B
C#
end
B
F#
B
C#
F#
Gilbert used to work a while
B
F#
and then he'd go to town on one big spree
It was the only way he knew
G#
C#
to ease the pain of hurtful memories
F#
So in a coastal town
while Gilbert drank away his cares
B
His old dog was impounded
B
When they couldn't find its owner,
F#
the dog was put to sleep,
B
C#
and perhaps it's best if
F#
Gilbert never knows.
Gilbert roamed from town to town,
B
still searching for the friend
F#
It was the final blow from fate
G#
that really turned the old
F#
He was ridiculed in bar rooms,
he was laughed at in the streets,
B
Still searching for his friend
B
F#
B
Till someone found him dead one day
F#
beneath a table in a park,
B
C#
With a collar and a chain
F#
D#
clutched in his hand.
G#
C#
Years ago old Gilbert found a puppy
G#
by the roadside left to die
Hungry and frightened
D#
beneath the frosty southern sky
G#
Gilbert picked him up and raised him
and a bond of friendship grew
C#
A friendship that was never
C#
Then one day Gilbert woke to find
G#
his old track mate was gone
C#
And he began a search that
D#
G#
C#
G#
only death could end
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