Every Little Bit Counts chords by James Mcmurtry

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D C D C

Verse 1:
  D                A
My thoughts were gnawin' at me so I tried hard not to think
 D              G
I took a pint of whiskey and I poured it down the sink
  D           A
I'd get my act together, I swore it to myself
 D         C       Bm         C
I looked up at your picture and I knocked it off the shelf

Refrain:
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C D
Every little bit counts


Chorus:
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me

 D      C          Bm   C
I tried and I tried and I tried to be so good (Too little too late)
 D      C     G C
Wanted to be good, so bad
 D      C          Bm     C             D
I tried and I tried and I tried every trick I could (Too little too late)
C        Bm    C
Emptied out the whole damn bag
      D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
But it was Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me


Instrumental:
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
D

Verse 2:
  D            A
I'm no longer choking on the hair of the dog
   D        C         Bm        C
It's been a couple of weeks now since I came out of the fog
  D               A
The highs are slightly higher, the lows are just as low
    D  C          Bm       C
It's a mild improvement on the average even so


Refrain:
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C
Every little bit counts
   D         C  G  C D
Every little bit counts


Outro:
   D         C
Every little bit counts (Too little too late)
     Bm        C D
Though it may not count for much
D       C
Could be long forgotten
    Bm        C
By the time you add 'em up


      D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Could it be too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me


D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate, sorry
D  C      Bm   C D  C  G C D
Too little too laaaaaaate for me