Chords for "Yo-Yo"

Date: May 17, 1997

From: Ryoji Shirai

2:16 PM

Yo - Yo
Written by: Ray Davies
Published by: Davray Music Ltd.
Intro: Dm C Am Dm
Dm
C
There are many different people,
Am Dm
Livin' double lives.
F
One for the office,
C
Dm
Bb
And one that they take home to their wives.
F
C
He sits in the armchair, watching channel 4,
Dm
Bb
With his brains not expected home for an hour or more.
Dm
C
Am
He's still drifting to and fro, like a yo-yo.
Dm
C
Am Dm
His wife is in the kitchen, fixin' her old man's tea
F
She's thinking to herself,
C
Dm
Bb
"He's not the man that married me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
F
C
They used to laugh together, now he's never at home.
Dm
Bb
Now she's fighting back the tears, she can't even laugh alone.
Dm
C
Am
She's just sitting by the telephone, like a yo-yo.
F
C
Bb
You needed me when you were
F
C
Bb
But now you're laughing I'm
F
C
Bb
First you love me, then you
F
C Bb
I'm up and down,
Am
Dm C
Like a yo-yo.
Am

C
crying,
C
the last thing on your mind.
C
don't.

Yo-yo.
Ah,
F
But
F
You
F
You

F
C Bb
C
you thought you knew me pretty well,
C Bb
C
with people like me you never can tell.
C
Bb
C
can only guess which way I'll go.
C
Bb
got me sussed, but you don't know,

C C
I'm a yo-yo.

Bb
Just like a yo-yo on a string.
C C
I'm a yo-yo.
Bb
Little child playing with a yo-yo.
C C
Bb Am Dm C Am
Yo-yo, yo-yo.
Dm
C
Girl you had me dangling, like
F
C
But with you at the controls I
yeah, yeah.
F
C
You were just playing, I was a
Dm
But when I grew into a man you
Dm C
Like a yo-yo.
Am
Yo-yo.

Am Dm
a yo-yo on a string,
Dm
Bb
could accomplish anything, yeah, yeah,
little boy,
Bb
just threw away your toy,

F
C
Bb
C
You might be popular, but it won't last for long,
F
C Bb
C
So don't give up the day job, in case it all goes wrong.
F
C
Bb
C
F
C Bb
Look at your ego, watch it go, up and down,
Am Dm C
Like a yo-yo.
Am
Yo-yo.
F
C
Bb
C
You needed me when you were crying,
F
C Bb
C
But now you're laughing I'm the last thing on your mind.
F
C
Bb
C
First you love me, then you don't.
F
C Bb
I'm up and down,
Am Dm C
Like a yo-yo.

Am
Yo-yo.