Somebody nobody knows

 

       D                                                  D7

1. Alone in a barroom a young girl is sitting

               G                          D

    and smiling at nothing at all,

                     A

    and she stares now and then at the eyes of the men,

                                A7                  D    - A

    in the mirror that hangs on the wall.

 

                D                                                             D7

2. She's waiting for someone and knowing there's no one,

             G                                        D

    who cares if she comes or she goes.

                A

    Just a soul in the shadows, the world never sees,

                                A7           D     - D7

    she's somebody nobody knows.

 

  G                  A                 D          A                                     D    -D7

Someone no one's ever known, crying where no one can hear,

  G                              A             D               A             A7          D

somebody's dying alone in a city where nobody cares.

 

      D                                                    D7

3. Down in the gutter an old man has fallen,

            G                                           D

    like something the world threw away.

            A

    The late crowd was leaving, and nobody even

                                A7                    D  - A

   took time to look down where he lay.

 

            D                                                     D7

4. The old man was crying and helplessly trying

         G                                        D

    to wipe off the stain from his clothes.

                 A

    Just a soul in the shadows that life left behind,

                              A7           D

    he's somebody nobody knows.  + CHORUS   

 

    (Kris Kristofferson)