Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Words and Music by

Jim Steinman

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C Em/B F /A

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Moderately slow, with a beat

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Fmaj7/G G C C /B

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         
Ba by, we can talk all night,

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   

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F C C /B

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                 
       
but that ain't get ting us no where. I've told you eve ry thing I

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Am F /G G

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pos si bly can, there's noth ing left side of here. And

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13 C C /B F

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may be you can cry all night, but that 'll nev er change the way

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             
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that I feel. The snow is real ly pil ing up side, I

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F /G G F G

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 here.      
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          
wish you would n't make me leave I poured it on and I poured

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         

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22 C Dm C /E F G C Dm C /E

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it out, I tried to show you just how much I care.

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     
25 F G C Am B♭

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              
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I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse shout, but you've been cold to

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F G

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me   
                  
         
so long, I'm cry ing i ci cles in stead of tears. And

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F /G G F /G G

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all I can do is keep on tell ing you, I

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C E /B Am F G

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            
want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ev

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Em Am Dm

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        
er gon na love you, Now, don't be sad, (don't be sad)

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'cause

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Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. Now don't be sad, 'cause

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To next strain Fine

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  all
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Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. Ba by, we can talk

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     

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C /E F G C

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night, but that ain't get ting us no where.

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You'll ne ver find your gold on a sand y beach. You'll

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F G C Dm C /E

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nev er drill for oil on a cit y street. I know you're

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54 F G C F /C C

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          
look ing for a ru by in a moun tain of rocks, but there

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56 B♭ G

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    
ain't no Coupe de Ville hid ing at the bot tom of a crack er jack box.

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     I can't I can't
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        
lie, tell you that I'm

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F Em

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no mat ter I'll nev er be

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            
some thing I'm not, how I try. a ble

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      
to give you some some thing that I just have n't got. There's

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C C /E F G7sus4

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68

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on ly one girl that I will ev er love, and that was so man y years a go

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71 C C /B Am

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And thought I know I'll nev er get her out of my heart, she nev er

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74 F /G G C

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loved me back, ooh, I know. I re mem ber how she left me on a

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        
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C /E F G C

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77

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storm y night, She kissed me and got our of our bed. And though I

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C /B Am

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80

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plead ed and I begged her not to walk out that door, She

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82 F /G G

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packed her bags and turned right a way. And she

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F /G G F /G G

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84

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kept on ing me, she kept on tell ing me, she

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F /G G C E /B Am

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86

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       
kept on tell ing me, "I want you, I need you, but there

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F G Em Am Dm

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89

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ain't no way I'm ev er gon na love you, Now, don't be sad,

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F A♭dim C D.S. al Fine

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92

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(don't be sad) 'cause Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad." I

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