Best Of Friends                                           copyright 2013 Stan Lyness
mid-tempo country male vocal                                                A for me

                                                                     1   5   47  1
     Some couples keep it friendly even once the loving's gone,    1   1   4   1
       as if the common memories can connect them from now on.     1   1   4   5
     Some guys'll handle breaking up with strength and dignity,    1   1   4   3
      and keep up good relations, but that's just not me,          4   1   5   57

X: no, I won't call to ask what all is new with you,                 4   4   1   1
  or bring you up to date on what I'm going through.                 4   4   1   1
    Although I plan to mind my manners when by chance we meet again, 4   47  3   6m
    that don't mean we can be best of friends.                       1   5   47  1
                                                                     1   5   47  1
If you're wishing for a confidante to tell how you hurt too,       1   1   4   1
  or it's sympathetic bonds you want, someone else'll do.          1   1   4   5
If you're haunted by concern and gotta let your kindness show,     1   1   4   3
     tell God or tell your girlfriends, but I don't need to know,  4   1   5   57

X: no, I don't need to know how new love's treating you.             4   4   1   1
  or bring you up to date on what I'm going through.                 4   4   1   1
    Although I plan to mind my manners when by chance we meet again, 4   47  3   6m
    that don't mean we can be best of friends.                       1   5   47  17

B:
   Don't ask about the friends I drove away,                          5   5   1   1 
 or that Mustang I'll put on the road some day.                       5   5   1   1 
     The bottle keeps me flat out occupied                            6   6   2m  1
and if I ain't got time for good times, what makes you think that I'd 2   2   5   57

X':
 have time for conversation all about your day,                 4   4   1   1
your wholesome family, and the man who took my place.           4   4   1   1
 See, when you suffocate the loving, the liking's gonnna end,   4   4   3   6m
       so even after I'm my own sweet self again,               1   5   6m  6m
    that don't mean we can be best of friends.                  1   5   4   4  47  1