Verse 1
C 
Last night I went to the Coronado 
C 
I bought my ticket and I found my seat 
C 
It was a new adventure straight from Hollywood 
C 
Light's went down, as I turned the heat 
          Gm                  Dm 
They went here from the final scene 
        Bb               C 
Burning rubber, spilling gasoline 
       Gm             Dm 
As the credits rolled away 
                Bb           C 
They were still chasing, the man who got away 
 
Verse 2
C 
Well, every nightfall, weeks and weeks now 
C 
I beat the traffic, I beat the heat now 
C 
For two hours I couldn't believe now 
C 
The man who got away was me 
       Gm                  Dm 
I went here from the final scene 
        Bb                C 
Burning rubber, spilling gasoline 
       Gm             Dm  
As the credits rolled away 
                Bm          C 
They were still chasing the man who got away 
 
Organ Solo
C                 Bb         G 
 
Verse 3
C 
Drove into Stockton, my radio went dead 
C 
That's when I heard what the newsman said 
C 
He said, "armed robbery on the ten-hundred block" 
C 
There was two men involved and one man shot 
C 
And one was accomplice, made the payday 
C 
With a 45 he blew the cashier away, way 
C 
Last seen headed on the state highway 
C 
Driving a late model Chevrolet 
        Gm                      Dm 
I went screaming from the final scene 
             Bb                      C 
In a hail of bullets and flaming and gasoline 
       Gm             Dm 
As the credits rolled away 
                Bb          C 
They were still chasing the man who got away, man that got away, man that got away, man that got away 
 
Outro
 -repeat and fade 
Gm             F        C