Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O'Sullivan (Words and music by Raymond O'Sullivan)

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Midi (Gb85)       Midi 4(F85)* Midi 5(F85)*-harp
-the # 8 song of the 1970-1979 rock era -was # 1 for 6 weeks in 1972
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| In a little while from now, if | I'm not feeling any less sour, I |
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| promise myself to treat myself and | visit a nearby tower. And |
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| climbing to the top    will | throw my self off,  in |
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| an effort to make it clear to who ev |
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| er what it's like when you're shattered, left | standing in the lurch at a |
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| church with people saying: "My | God, that's tough", "She stood him up", "No |
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| point in us remaining", | "We may as well go home" as |
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| I did on my own. A |lone again,  natur al ly.       To |


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| think that only yesterday, I | was cheerful, bright and gay.  Look |
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| ing forward to who wouldn't do, the | role I was about to play? But |
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| asif to knock me down, re | al'ty came around. And |
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| without so much as a mere touch, cut | me into little pieces. Leav |
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| ing me to doubt, talk a | bout God in His mercy. Who |
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| if He really does exist, wh | y did He desert me? | In my hour of need.  I |
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| truly am indeed, a | lone again, nat ur | al ly.      It |

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| seems to me that there are more hearts | broken in the world that can't be |
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| mended, left unattended. What do we | do? What do we | do?   |

Instrumental here (to words of verse one)

Looking back over the years. And whatever else that appears.
I remember I cried when my father died. Never wishing to hide the tears.
And at sixty-five years old. My mother, God rest her soul.
Couldn't understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken.
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken.
Despite encouragement from me, no words were ever spoken.
And when she passed away, I cried and cried all day.
Alone again, naturally. Alone again, naturally.

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