The Pay Phone Chords
by Bob Luman
The Pay Phone by Bob Luman is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, A7, G, E and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D
Verse
D
Money drops into a payphone at the airport in LA
A7 D
The phone rings in an apartment a mile away
A young girl's voice said hello, I said Shirley you don't know me
A7 D
A friend said I should call you when I'm in LA
D
Money drops into a payphone in the Alanta airport lounge
A7 D
A phone rings in an apartment in LA
A young girl's voice said hello, I said Shirley I just got home
A7 D
There's something I just got to say
Verse
G D
Shirley I lied to you part of things I said were not true
A7 D
Shirley I'm married, I got a son almost as old as you
G D
I won't be comming back to do all the things we said we planned
A7 D
I can't walk out on her Shirley, she's never looked at another man
D
Money drops into a payphone in the Alanta airport lounge
A7 D
The phone rings in an Alanta suburban home
A woman's voice said hello, I said hello I just got in
A7 D
Pick me up and honey don't be long
E
Money drops into a payphone at the corner of first and main
B7 E
The phone rings in an apartment accross town
A young man's voice said hello, she said Jack it's Helen
B7 E
I can't see you tonight he's back in town