Song: Standing On The Outside
By: Cold Chisel
Album: Chisel
Transcribed by: Russell Edwards roemcs@melb.alexia.net.au

[Verse]

             
I'm standing o

             
n the outside 


lookin' in
             
I'm standing o

             
n the outside 


lookin' in
            
Whoa-oh, I nev

            
er strayed out

        
side the law
             
I'm standing o

             
n the outside 


lookin' in
             
A room full of

             
 money and I'm

 
 born to win
            
And no amount 

            
of work's gonn

             
a get me throu

       
gh the door
             
When I go walk

        
in' down Blue 

Water bay
             
I surface in t

             
he city at the

 
 end of the da

y
            
Whoa-oh, I got

           
 a bad case of

     
 the benz
             
I'm standing o

             
n the sidewalk


 you can see
             
Somebody every

    
body wants to 

be
            
But they got t

            
he means to ju

           
stify every en

d
             
I got a friend

             
 broke through

 
 illegally
             
Pulled a job o

             
n a small town

 
 t.a.b.
            
Five grand dow

            
n on his own l

             
ittle piece of

 
 Eden


[Bridge]

(Single strums)

And I know ...

And I know ...

(Resume full strumming)
             
The first thin

              
g I'll do when

   
 I get into to

wn
            
Is buy a 22 an

          
d cut the whol

e thing down
             
No amount of w

             
ork's gonna bu

             
y my way to fr

      
ee-ee-dom


[Short break]


[Chorus]

             
I'm on the out

     
side lookin' i

n
             
I'm standing o

              
n the outside 


lookin' in
             
Whoa-oh, whoa-

      
oh, oh yeah
             
I'm standing o

              
n the outside 


lookin' in
             
I'm standing o

              
n the outside 


lookin' in
          


[Outro]

                              x 3
         
          Whoa

            
-oh, whoa-oh, 

           
oh yeah