Three cigarettes in an ashtray

D A D G D

1. Two cigarettes in an ashtray, my love and I, in a small café.

G D B7

Then a stranger came along, and everything went wrong,

E E7 A

Now there's three cigarettes in the ashtray.

D A D G D

2. I watched her take him from me, and his love is no longer my own.

G D B7

Now they are gone, and I sit alone,

G A D - A

and watch one cigarette burn away.

D A D G D

3. I watched her take him from me, and his love is no longer my own.

G D B7

Now they are gone, and I sit alone,

G A D - G - D

and watch one cigarette burn away.

(capo 3rd)

(Patsy Cline)