How Many Friends
By The Who
From Who By Numbers, 1975
Written by Pete Townshend

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transcribed by
Justin Fox (also, if you get a chance, check out my band at myspace.com/themisprintsband)
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Capo on 3

                     

             
  I'm feelin' 

   
so good right 

now
            
There's a hand

              
some boy tells

         
 me how I chan

        
ged his past
             
He buys me a b


randy
            
  Or could it 

            
be he's really

           
 just after my

 
 ass?
             
He likes the c


lothes I wear
            
  He says he l

            
ikes a man to 

      
dress in seaso

n
            
But no one els

              
e ever stares,

            
 he's being so

    
 kind
Gm7           C-->
What's the reason?

[chorus]

            
 How many frie

            
nds have I rea

  
lly got?
              
 You can count

            
 'em on one ha

nd
            
 How many frie

            
nds have I rea

            
lly got?
            
 How many frie

            
nds have I rea

    
lly got?
           
That love me, 

           
that want me, 

           
that'll take m

/   
e  as I   am?

Suddenly it's a silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out
Everybody hears me
Well, I look like a fool, now, if I try and I shy out
She knows all of my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who'll stay on late
But now I think I've reached the end
I wonder in the dead of night, how do I rate?

[repeat chorus]


            
   It's all li

     
ke a dream you

 know
            
When you're st

              
ill up early i

      
n the morning
            
    And you al

             
l sit together

              
 to watch the 


sun come throu

gh
            
  But things d

     
on't look so g

ood
              
When you could

 
 use a bit of 

warning
            
  Then you kno

              
w that no one 

           
will ever spea

              
k the truth ab

    
out you.

[repeat chorus]

When I first signed the contract, it was more than a handshake then
I know it still is, but there's a plain fact
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs, I get the willies
People know nothing about their own soft guts
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known
How come they bum us up

[repeat chorus]


one of the best songs on the album.