Can't We Be Friends

by Frank Sinatra

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CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS             FRANK SINATRA



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5  -4   5    6    5   -6  -3b -3 -3   -3
I took each word she said as gos-pel truth

-3  -3b -3 4 -3   3   2    -2b   2
The way a sil-ly lit-tle child would.

5  -4    5  6    5 -6  -3b  -3    -3   -3
I can't ex-cuse it on the grounds of youth,

-3 4  -4 -4   5   4  -3b  -3b
I was no babe in the wild wood.

-6    -6 -6  -6  -6
She did-n't mean it,

-6  -6    -6   -6   5
I should have seen it,

-5   -5   4   -3b
Now it's too late.


REFRAIN

4   -2b    3    -3b  -3   4  -4  5   5
I thought I'd found the girl of my dreams,

-5  -6   -5
Now it seems,

 -5  -5  4   -3b -2b -2b 2
This is how the sto-ry ends:

 2     -2b  -2b -6b 4   -5   4  -3
She's goin’ to turn me down and say,

-3b    -3  -3b  -3
"Can't we be friends?"

4   -3b    3   -3b -3   4   -4   5   5
I thought for once it could-n't go wrong,

-5  -6   -5
Not for long,

-5 -5  4   -3b -2b -2b  2
I can see the way this ends:

 2    -2b   -3b  4  -5   4  -3  -3
She's goin’ to turn me down and say,

-3b    -3 -3b  -3b
"Can't we be friends?"

-5   6 6  -6
Nev-er a-gain

   6    -5     5      -5   -5  4  4
Through with love through with wo-men

 5    5     -5    6   -3b  -3  -4
They play their game with-out shame

-4    5   5   -5
And who’s to blame

4   -2b    3   -3b  -3 4   -4  5    5
I thought I’d found a girl I could trust,

-5   -6  -5
What a bust

 -5   5  4   -3b -2b -2b 2
This is how the sto-ry ends

 2    -2b  -3b   4  -5  4   -3  -3
She’s goin’ to turn me down and say

-3b    -3 -3b -3b
“Can’t we be friends?”


REFRAIN 2

I thought I knew the wheat from the chaff
What a laugh
This is how the story ends
I let her turn me down and say
“Can’t we be friends?”
I acted like a kid out of school
What a fool
Now I see the way this ends
I let her turn me down and say 
“Can’t we be friends?”
Why should I care
Though she gave me the air
Why should I cry heave a sigh
And wonder why
I should have seen the signal to stop
What a flop
This is how the story ends
I let her turn me down and say
“Can’t we be friends?”