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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date:  September 3, 2021
Album:  The End Of The World Country Hits 1958-1972
Written by: Arthur Kent (music) and Sylvia Dee (lyrics)
Note: To keep chords over the lyrics use courier font size 12. 
This is tabbed to the key of the recording.



   END OF THE WORLD  Skeeter Davis

Intro: Bb  F  Gm  C7

    Bb                       F
    Why does the sun go on shining?
     Gm                       Dm
    Why does the sea rush to shore?
     Cm                      Dm
    Don't they know it's the end of the world,
           C#                     F     F7
    `cause you don't love me any more?


   Bb                       F
2. Why does my heart go on beating?
     Dm                       Am
    Why do these eyes of mine cry?
     Cm                       Dm
    Don't they know it's the end of the world?
        C#            C           F
    It ended when you said good-bye.
 
        Bb                           F
    I wake up in the morning and I wonder
     Gm                              F
    why everything's the same as it was.
           Am                      Dm
    And I can't understand, no, I can't understand,
     Bb                           C   C7
    why life goes on the way it does.
 
   Bb                        F
3. Why do the birds go on singing?
    Dm                       Am
    Why do the stars shine above?
     Cm                       Dm
    Don't they know it's the end of the world?
         C#          C          F
    It ended when I lost your love.
    Bb  F  Gm  C7
                            Cm                        Dm
                            Don't they know it's the end of the world?
        Bb             C         F     Bb  F  C7  F
    It ended when you said good-bye.