Don't know why but that posted all wrong! Chords all over the place.
I'll try again.
G
First you lose the rhyming
                  C
Then you lose the timing
                  D
Then you lose the money
                  G
then you lose the friends
                     
And you try for one more song
                   C
But the words don't come and the chords are wrong
       D
Whisky bottle won't last long before it ends

Em                         D
I met him in a bar room in Chicago
      Em                            A/D
Iwas writing what became of names we knew
C                                     G
About the ones who'd let their shooting star

Go out of sight
    A             A7             D
The one hit wonder boys who never grew
       A
And I asked him sir
      A7               D
What happened then to you?
       D7
And he said;


Those are the basics. You can "Sex it up" (as they say) with the odd 7th and minor etc.