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{title: Gimme, gimme, gimme} {artist: ABBA} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 120} {key: Dm} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro 1} [Dm] [Dm#5] [C] [Dm] [Dm#5] [Dm] [C] [Dm] [Dm] [Dm#5] [C] [Dm] [Dm#5] [Dm] [C] [Dm] {end_of_part} {start_of_part: Intro 2 (flute)} [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [Dm]half past twelve and I'm [Gm]watching the late show in my flat all alone how I hate to spend the evening on my [Dm]own [Dm]autumn winds blowing [Gm]outside the window as I look around the room and it makes me so depressed to see the [Dm]gloom {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Pre-chorus} [Gm6/Bb] there's not a soul out there, [Gm6] no-one to hear my prayer [A7sus4] {end_of_part} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} [Dm]gimme gimme [Bb]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb]won't somebody [Dm]help me chase the [C]shadows a[Dm]way [Bb]gimme gimme [Dm]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb]take me through the [Dm]darkness to the [C]break of the [Dm]day {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Intro 2 (flute)} [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [Dm]movie stars find the [Gm]end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win it's so different from the world I'm living [Dm]in [Dm]tired of TV, I [Gm]open the window and I gaze into the night but there's nothing there to see, no one in [Dm]sight {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Pre-chorus} [Gm6/Bb] there's not a soul out there, [Gm6] no-one to hear my prayer [A7sus4] {end_of_part} {chorus: Chorus 2} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 3} [Dm]gimme gimme [Bb]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb] [Dm] [C] [Dm] [Dm]gimme gimme [Bb]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb] [Dm] [C] [Dm] {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Instrumental} [Dm] [Dm9] {end_of_part} {start_of_part: Pre-chorus} [Gm6/Bb] there's not a soul out there, [Gm6] no-one to hear my prayer [A7sus4] {end_of_part} {start_of_chorus: Chorus, x2} [Dm]gimme gimme [Bb]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb]won't somebody [Dm]help me chase the [C]shadows a[Dm]way [Bb]gimme gimme [Dm]gimme a [C]man after [Dm]midnight [Bb]take me through the [Dm]darkness to the [C]break of the [Dm]day {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Intro 2, flute, repeat} [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] [Dm] [F] [Am] [Dm] {end_of_part}