This is a version I learned off a live video of John from an aug. 2008 concert.
If you want it to sound exactly like john s version you ll want to finger pick it and
throw in the extra notes
(mostly g on the high e string and a high e, f and sometimes d) you ll get where they
if you listen to it.
Capo 2nd fret
[Verse]
I know a guy that s got a lot to lose.
He s a pretty nice fellow but he s kind of confused.
He s got muscles in his head that ain t never been used.
Thinks he own half of this town.
Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose.
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose,
then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes.
That s the way that the world goes round.
[Chorus]
That s the way that the world goes round.
You re up one day and the next you re down.
It s half an inch of water and you think you re gonna drown.
That s the way that the world goes round.
[Verse]
I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes,
when the radiator broke, water all froze.
I got stuck in the ice without my clothes,
naked as the eyes of a clown.
I was crying ice cubes hoping I d croak,
when the sun come through the window, the ice all broke.
I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke
That s the way that the world goes round.
[Chorus]
That s the way that the world goes round.
You re up one day and the next you re down.
It s half an inch of water and you think you re gonna drown.
That s the way that the world goes round.
Repeat Chorus 2x