FIVE O'CLOCK WORLD
The Vogues

(Allen Reynolds)

peak Billboard position # 4 in 1965-66
recently a theme on the Drew Carey TV show


 Intro: [acoustic guitar plays this riff through each verse; 2X solo at start]

         Capo IV
         ---- --

         E/G#            D/A
         (C/E)          (Bb/F)
          v       v       v       v
         -0---------------1---------------
         -----3---3p1---------4---4p3-----
         -------------0---------------3---
         -2---------------3---------------
         ---------------------------------
         ---------------------------------

         [bass and drums enter]

         E         D         E         D
            [hey]     [hey]     [hey]     [hey]

 Verse 1:

         E         D               E      D
         Up every morning just to keep a job
                  E        D               E        D
         I gotta fight my way through the hustlin' mob
          E             D            E      D
         Sounds of the city poundin' in my brain
                E           D             E
         While another day goes down the drain

 Chorus 1:

                     A            D              A       D
         But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
         A             D           A     D
         Noone owns a piece of my time
                        A           D     A        D
         And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
         A                              B
         Thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah

         E   D     E    D    E    D    E    D
         Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

 Verse 2:

         Tradin' my time for the pay I get
         Livin' on money that I ain't made yet
         Gotta keep goin', gotta make my way
         But I live for the end of the day

 Chorus 2:

         But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
         Noone owns a piece of my time
         And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I know
         To ease my troubled mind, yeah

         Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah

 Verse 3:

         In the shelter of her arms everythings OK
         She talks and the world goes slippin' away (it slips away)
         And I know the reason I can still go on
         When every other is gone

 Chorus 3:

         In my five o'clock world she waits for me
         Nothing else matters at all
         'Cause every time my baby smiles at me
         I know that its all worthwhile, yeah

 Coda: [repeat to fade]

         E   D     E    D    E    D    E    D
         Adaladee-hee, hee, yeah



 -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

NOTES:

The Vogues were a quartet formed in a Turtle Creek PA high school in 1960.

Allen Reynolds wasn't in the Vogues. I heard that he did record, but
only briefly and with some small label.

He is a noted producer in Nashville, best known for his work with Garth
Brooks. He has also produced Hal Ketchum, Kathy Mattea and Crystal Gayle
(He was the producer on "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.), as well as
one album by Emmylou Harris. Talented man.

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