SINCE IVE BEEN AROUND BY THE WAIFS (J CUNNINGHAM) Capo 3 – with INTRO /MIDDLE/OUTRO – G C Em D G (times 2) G D Em C Walking down the main street of this town where I was born G D Em C Looking at the things I've seen so many times before G D Em C I take a deep breath, smile and kick a stone along the ground G D G Been so long since I've been around G D Em C There's comfort in the way that everything still looks the same, G D Em C and people that I bump into they call me by my name, G D Em C It almost feels as though I never even left this town G D G Been so long since I've been around G D Em C And My girlfriend she lived on Hawdon St - man was she a sight, G D Em C Sometimes I would sneak into her bedroom late at night, G D Em C Now she's not there - I'm told her family long since left the town, G D G Been so long since I've been around G D Em C Yeah Many of my friends they found some other place they'd rather be G D Em C But I still now of one good mate shes gunna keep me company G D Em C But I think I'm gonna call her up, we'll go and paint the town, G D G Been so long since I've been around (Middle) G D Em C I stopped on by her place, years ago I knew her well G D Em C "lets go drink to old times at the Adelaide hotel' G D Em C She said its twenty years now since they shut that old pub down G D G Been so long since I've been around G D Em C Yeah But the hospital's still standing, down over by the river shore G D Em C That's the place where I took my first breath, so many years before G D Em C I take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound G D G Been so long since I've been around (middle) G D Em C Now I'm lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade G D Em C Children shout and splash about in water where I played G D Em C And I'm thinking I could stay a while, maybe settle down, G D G Been so long since I've been around (outro)