After Hours

by Erskine Hawkins , His Orchestra

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AFTER HOURS
W; Robert Bruce & Buddy Feyne
M: Avery Parish
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra
Key: C

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Af-ter hours, when it's time
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To close the doors 
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and turn the lights down low
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Af-ter hours, where the lone-ly sha-dows
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Spend the night, that's where I go
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You can find me,
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Walk-in' with those af-ter hours blues
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Af-ter hours with the blues
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Look-in' a-round for a place to for-get her
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I keep com-in' back to the one where we met
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It's dark and de-sert-ed, but some-thing
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A-bout it still makes me a-ware
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That I care for her yet

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Out of the past comes a dim re-col-lec-tion,
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She's sit-tin' with me at a ta-ble for two
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Then in the dark of a win-dows re-flec-tion
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I see I'm a-lone and I know that we're thru
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And I go on walk-in' with those 
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af-ter hours blues
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af-ter hours, just the blues and me

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I try to find some peace of mind
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A friend-ly voice some one who's kind
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I close my eyes try not to think
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Oh Lord, got ta have a drink
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Oh Lord please help me to for-get
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Oh Lord, my heart is heav-y yet
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Oh Lord, I've got to find a place
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Where I won't see that haunt-ing face
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A place where I can go to lose
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Those mel-an-chol-y af-ter hours blues

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The night is still, the streets are bare
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And like the blues, she's ev-'ry-where
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I close my eyes, but mem-'ries stay
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Oh Lord, make them go a-way
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She's gone, why can't she let me be
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She's gone, and yet she's here with me
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So on I go find a place
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Where I won't see that haunt-ing face
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A place where I can go to lose
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Those mel-an-chol-y af-ter hours blues