The Way The Whole Thing Ends

	  		
 

G 
Say you wanna see my garden 
G 
And you wanna make it shine 
G 
Say you wanna see my blue jeans 
                           G7 
Hanging on your old clothesline 

C                        D 
Standing in the backdoor crying 
G                   C 
Now you wanna be my friend 
E                            Am 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
D7                             G 
That's the way the whole thing ends 

Now what's a little baby doing 
Dressing up in banker's clothes? 
Now what's a little sweetheart like you 
Doing with a bloody nose? 

Standing in the backdoor crying 
Now you're gonna need a friend 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
That's the way the whole thing ends 

Now once you had a hook and ladder 
Up into the headless night 
And once you had a motorcycle 
But you couldn't ride it right 

Standing in the doorway crying 
Now you're gonna need a friend 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
That's the way the whole thing ends 

Someone said something one time 
But Daddy didn't talk too loud 
People ought to stick together 
That's the way to make a crowd 

But here you come alone and crying 
Now you wanna be my friend 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
That's the way the whole thing ends 

Momma's in the beauty parlor 
And Daddy's in the baseball pool 
Sister's in the drive-in movie 
Brother's in the old high school 

Now here you come alone and crying 
Once, you know, you were my friend 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
That's the way the whole thing ends 

Standing in the backdoor crying 
Now you wanna be my friend 
That's the way the cornbread crumbles 
That's the way the whole things ends 



End on: G