The Future's Not What It Used to Be

Capo on VI

(C) (C/b) (Am) (Am/g)

(F) (F/e) (Dm) (G)

(C) I left (C/b) Decatur

(Am) Hell-bent to (Am/g) forget
Bought a (F) ticket to Skowhegan (C) Maine

(C) I wound up in in (C/b) Seattle
(Am) So drunk and so (Am/g) rattled 

(D7/f#) Lord I’d caught the wrong train (G7)

(C) Found some fast easy (C/b) women

And some (Am) hard drinking men (Am/g)
(F) Swore I’d drown of sorrow in (D/f#) me

     I (F) once had a (G) lot

     But the (C) future was (F) not

     (C) Not what (G) it used to (F) be (C) (G)

Ah the years they went by,
And I went steadily down-hill

Til I had no place left to go

Made the missions by morning

Made the dives every night
Til I made a wreck of my body and soul

And then I met a lady

And in time she made me

Forget, her love set me free

     Ah, we didn’t have a lot

     But the future was not

     Not what it used to be

          (Am) I never thought I would (Em) live to get old

          For the (Am) past cut a whole deep in (C) me
          But (Am) there was the chance (Em) to be here a while longer

          (F) At least I wanted to (G) be

Somebody told me

That she was in town

I found out today

Lord how it hurts me

To hear that she’s down

But what else can I say

I know her sorrow

I know her pain

I know her need

     I once loved her a lot

     But the future’s just not

     Not what it used to be