Games People Play

By: Bill Anderson 
Recorded in F# 
 
Capo 1st Fret 
 
All verses and chorus are chorded the same 
 
 
INTRO CHORUS :   
E                          B7 
La da la da da ...la da la de-d-de         
              A          B7                     E 
talking 'bout you and me...and the games people play 
 
 
VERSE 
E 
Oh the games people play now 
                      B7 
Every night and every day now  
                        A 
Never meaning what they say now  
B7                     E 
Never saying what they mean 
 
VERSE 
E 
So they while away the hours 
               B7 
In their ivory towers 
                              A 
Till they're covered up with flowers 
       B7                    E          
In the back of a black limou-sine 
 
 
CHORUS  
E                          B7 
La da la da da ...la da la de-d-de 
              A         B7                      E      
talking 'bout you and me...and the games people play 
 
 
VERSE 
Oh they make one another cry  
Break their hearts and they say goodbye  
Cross our hearts and we hope to die  
That the other was to blame  
 
VERSE 
Neither one would ever give in  
So they gaze at an eight by ten  
Thinkin' 'bout the it might have been  
And it's a dirty rotten shame  
 
CHORUS 
 
INSTRUMENTAL : CHORUS 
 
VERSE 
People walkin up to ya 
Singing glory haliluah 
and they try to sock it to ya 
In the name of the Lord 
 
VERSE 
They're gonna teach you how to meditate  
Read your horoscope and cheat your fate  
And the further more the hell with hate  
Come on and get on board 
 
 
CHORUS 
 
 
VERSE 
 
Look around and tell me what you see  
What's happening to you and me  
God grant me the serenity 
To just remember who I am 
 
VERSE 
Cause you've given up your sanity 
for your pride and your vanity 
turned your back on humanity 
and you don't give a la da da  
 
CHORUS  
E                          B7 
La da la da da ...la da la de-d-de 
              A         B7                      E      
talking 'bout you and me...and the games people play 
 
 
CHORUS  
E                          B7 
La da la da da ...la da la de-d-de 
              A         B7                      E      
talking 'bout you and me...and the games people play