1. |
Angel
04:04
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FCGG
My baby must have been kissed by an angel
Who missed someone who really needed saving
And gave her the power to be righteous in sin
For the Lord just watches each time we commit
F C G Em
Now you wanna be good or do ya wanna be right?
You tryna sleep in this old town tonight?
FCGG
She revved the engine looked up and grinned
Like she could seduce Jack Nicholson
Hallelujah, let’s ride
Well, I been persuaded by the acts of flesh
One or twice before still got some pages left
F C G Em
All that said, I think I know how it ends
We all get a little suffering then
F C G G Hallelujah, let’s ride
F C G G (add G on first string...)
She said, “I’m looking for a gentleman
I need a touch of a human kind
Even if ya taste like an angel...”
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2. |
Kimmy Rolla
05:17
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BBEEEEBB
I was drinking drive thru daiquiris
With the girl of your daddy’s dreams
She was choppin’ mysteries for your heroes
Just as I figured out what I wrecked my body for
Tone-deaf Darrow was knockin’ on heaven’s door
Sounded best to me lying on the checkered floor
'Cause she’d fallen in and out of love with my shine
And I followed suit now, just to be kind
It’s a trick to wind, but it keeps the time
Crimes ain’t what they used to be
Kimmy Rolla and Joy Riding
The girls are climbing to the top
Said, “We ain’t falling, babe, we’re flying!”
Kimmy Rolla
You can flip it, you can fry it
You know now Kimmy gonna try it
‘Cause Kimmy keep me rolling
Puckered our lips and closed our eyes and waited
That’s just the way the tangerines tasted
Every place is a garden, baby, just as long as opportunities are taken
King Kong became a satirist and bought a river casino
He throws craps and weeps on his old love notes
And I’m praying for the music of his wisdom so he knows now
Times ain’t what they used to be
Kimmy Rolla and Joy Riding
The girls are climbing to the top
Said, “We ain’t falling, babe, we’re flying!”
Kimmy Rolla, she gonna flip, she gon fry it
Ya, you know Kim; you gonna try it
She keep me rolling
Heavy rain broke the heat of the sun
Felt like God Bless America on pipe and drum
And I thought of Dad and I thought of Mom
You know, times ain’t what they used to be...
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3. |
Rose
04:19
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(Tune guitar down for extra)
E F#m
Take the roses, honey baby
Take the roses down the line
A Amaj7
Take it easy on the dreaming
E F#m
Take it easy all the time
D B7
No, don’t lose it calling me, baby E A Don’t lose it until you’re right
EA
E F#m
Call Rose for forgiveness
Call Rose and make it right
A Amaj7
Take a petal for the dreamboat
E F#m
And take your little hand in mine
D B7
Don’t lose it calling me “baby”
EA
Don’t lose it until you’re right beside me Until you’re right beside me...
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4. |
Jackpot
04:40
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I’d love to know what it feels like to hit the jackpot one time To get a chance at a new life, to feel like I got another try
Been figured out and foiled again
I been the fool turned cruel and then
There’s always someone crueler than you
There’s always gonna be a deeper blue
There’s always gonna be a bit more road
Most the good stories travelled are tolled
It takes proximity to know what I know
I’m bona fide to sell your soul
Most of ‘em lied and most of ‘em old
Died still wearing all of their gold
Gone in a flash, the pistons cold
Gone in the flesh, the stories told
I’d love to know what it feels like to hit the jackpot before I die Maybe get a chance at a new life
Can you live forever, babe?
Now, can you afford to try?
I'd love to know what it feels like
I’d love to know what that feels like
It feels like...
It feel like we he hit the jackpot one time
Tell me, baby
Hit the jackpot one time
I wanna know, I wanna know
What it feel like one time to hit the jackpot in my prime
Must feel better than losing the thing
Must feel better than earning it, baby
Now did you ever earn it, baby?
Tell me, did you ever burn it up, baby?
Did you wish you never, never ever hit the jackpot?
Hit the jackpot...
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5. |
Phantom Embrace
03:40
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D
She said, baby, how you doing tonight
D7
And what kind of stuff do you like
GA
Her voice sound like a photo album
GA
I kept quiet, I didn’t say nothin’
She was sweet, she took her time
Stay on the line, baby, it’s your dime
I don’t mind to be the one who talks
Sometimes that’s all they want
Then she told me ‘bout the town where she's from Some young hunk poppin’ bubble gum
Swept through life just like a hurricane
That's how she ended up in LA
And that lover is long gone now
A couple guys ago anyhow
Tonight, baby, I’m all yours
Tell me have you called this number before?
Em A D G
Two lost voices in the night
Found ourselves on the other side
Another stranger with a candle still burnin
This late you’re either earning or yearning
I was wounded and I felt misplaced
Getting ready throw it all away
Too many desolate decades
Wrapped up in a phantom embrace
DG
Then I heard myself say no
I found her card at The Calando
Some old dive off of 215
The well taste like gasoline
I only order cold bottled beer
And tear the calendar by the year
Barkeep there knows my face
I don't recall ever saying my name
But my barstool is always free
She knows I won’t settle till I leave
The music’s low and the light’s are lower
And the time gets slower and slower
She asked me why it was I called
Almost hung up but then I paused
When she said, "Trust me, I know how lonesome
This world gets when you ain’t got no one..."
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6. |
Sweetheart
04:08
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D(Dsus4) G(G6)
It might be that I never knew your mama
That don’t mean that I ain’t gonna love you
You might think it’s a little hard to understand
I didn’t believe until Heaven sent you to me
A
Might be the brightest light I ever seen
G
Shining through the darkness
Oh, I need it
AG
Could anything on this earth be so sad
as losing the sweetest love I ever
DG
Used to go out walking late at night
I touched the raw current of loneliness just to fight it
A
Might be the brightest light I ever seen
G
Shining through the darkness
Oh, I need it
AG
Could anything on this earth be so sad as
losing the sweetest love I ever had
A
She said, “Daddy, I love you so madly.”
G
And I said, “Sweetheart, I’ll never let you go.”
A
She said, “Daddy, I love you so madly.”
G
And I said, “Sweetheart, I’ll never let you go.”
DG
Might be the brightest light I ever seen
Shining through the darkness
Oh, I need it
Could anything on this earth be so sad as
losing the sweetest love I never had
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7. |
Roadside Crosses
04:22
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F# B
Roadside crosses
Stretch out along the highway
Faded plastic flowers, hand painted names
And the cars go on for miles
And the end you can’t see
We’re all tryna get somewhere
We’re tryna get what we need
C# G#m
Everything is just over the edge
Everything is just out of reach
Soon as I can cross that line
B G#m
Then I will find you
And you will find me
And we will finally be free
F# B
If only...
F# B
Sometimes the light in a fog
Is just love in vain
Sometimes the line to crossed
Was drawn with pain
Like a desert mirage
You appear before me
Like the most beautiful sunset
Hanging over my last meal
C# G#m
Everything is just over the edge
Everything is just out of reach
Soon as I can cross that line
B G#m
Then I will find you
And you will find me
And we will final be free
If only it was that easy
F# B
If only...
Roadside crosses...
Put up a roadside cross for me, baby
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8. |
Miss Best
04:43
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CCFG
Sipping sangria while riding my bike
Crosstown to see what the sun set like
Cruise past Gia Maria
That girl so fine
The bell’s were ringing at St. John the Divine
Dm G
And if you’re lacking something to desire
Don’t matter if you’re wanted for hire
Dm G F Am
Don’t take much to know what it don’t take
G
Hey hey baby oh
You never know
I just might be the best thing you don’t know you’re missing out on
CCFG
Cindy usually don’t make me sad
She got a cop she calls a friend but he could be her dad
He gives her money every Tuesday night
Then he goes back home to the wife
Dm G
I wanna buy her a crocheted dress
But I don’t think she’s that impressed
Dm G F Am
She put the speaker that some guy gave her in the basket of my bike and said,
G
“Do you wanna get high?
Y’know pinko you’d be stupid not to try...”
I just might be the best thing you don’t know you’re missing out on
Sandy hung a picture of white Jesus in the hall
Next to the baby blue telephone on the wall
She told me she don’t really believe in it all but
He still protects her when they call her
I bought her that crochet dress
It’s got little flowers on it
I’d fall apart if you pulled one thread, honey
I try not to let it go to my head
She plays Orchid and she says,
“I’m so glad you’re not the best thing I’ve been missing out on...”
CCFG
She plays Orchid and she leans toward my ear
“You know Pinko you’d be stupid not to hear me now, huh?
You’d be stupid not to try
I just might be the best thing
You don’t know what you’ve been missing out on
Mmmm”
No, you don’t gotta be lacking something to desire me...
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9. |
Pink Eldorado
03:53
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A B C#m7 (B) A
Love me, baby
Squeeze me tighter
Kiss me better
Say, “Forever...”
Ya ya ya ya ya...
She likes her kisses tender and she drinks her coffee black
Knows how to shoot a gun but she says she’d rather dance
And she walks across my mind I smell her perfume on that summer dress
I just wanna sweep her up again
Ya I want her back again
Chorus
And it’s been like this for years
One long enduring spell
They say, “You’ll know when you know...”
And then they act like they can’t tell
Her old man used to beat her
She said, “I ain’t never goin’ back there.”
These stories hurt
To tell ‘em they taste bitter
Makes it worse they act like they don’t care
Chorus
Cooked up the last of our saving
Y’know cheap wine and old bread
Swayed to the skipping side of the Bobby record
Until we fell right into bed
“Can ya dream a little dream for me, baby?”
I got a dream for you...
“Can ya dream a little dream for me, darlin’?
I need this one come true.”
Chorus
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10. |
Hide
03:30
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Never had to teach the girl to sing
She was abandoned with her babies in spring Tornado touch down in Tennessee
I’ll never love her like she love me
The shades were drawn on the 4th of July
She was crying but I didn’t know why
She said, “I hear their guns firing outside...”
I said, “Babe, that ain’t nothing but colors in the sky. That’s just a fading dream going by...”
Pretty baby
We ain’t going out tonight
You know I know how you love to hide
Pretty baby
I’ll be right by your side
And everything is all right tonight
One day at a time
These little tricks gonna get her to love me
These little tricks I know they work on a dime
This little fix gonna rest my heart rate
She bound to slip away in time
So pretty baby we ain’t going out tonight
You know I know how you love to hide
Pretty baby
I’ll be right by your side
And everything is all right tonight
It’s gonna be all right, one day at a time
Don’t know about tomorrow
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11. |
Cody Bobby
06:54
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DG
Cody never knew a love like this
Never got married, never had any kids
Never saw the valley from up on the crest
A number of things went right
A number of things went by
And Bobby was just a guy from PA
He showed her pictures of his old girlfriends
He wasn’t with any of them
That was a distance era in Bethlehem
Em
And Cody and Bobby took off
In a myth they pooled their fortune and bought
G
And sold it to each other like a ticket to the last ballet
DG
New York, I 78
Rip off lotharios on the interstate
And Cody got to feeling great
And Bobby drove
The sun in their eyes woke Cody up
Arizona state line was coming up
Like a rumor ‘bout a sweepstakes in Tucson
They got diesel, air, a Frito pie
They got some ice, some beer and a name buck knife
Cody shaved Bobby’s head and his hair blew away
Chorus
And Bobby said he’d take Cody to the top
And take her picture up on Coffee Pot
And scratch her name in a brass Master Lock and throw it down Down to the valley never to come undone
Like a secret kept from everyone
‘Cause it wasn’t their damn business anyhow
Em
And Cody and Bobby took off
In a myth they pooled their fortune and bodies
G
Sold it to each other like a ticket to the last ballet
Bobby said to Cody, “You get to be who you are
Some folks they don’t get that far
Look at us, look how far we done got
Hell, we’re practically lost...”
And Cody saw a tear in Bobby’s eye
And then Cody started to cry, and then the campfire started to die And they held each other in the sparkling desert night
And they looked up at the stars in the sky
As if they could ever fall asleep watching the last ballet Watching the last ballet in the sparkling desert night
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12. |
Twin Flame
03:31
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C F Am Dm
Heartbreaking’
“You’ll be just fine...”
I’m a dark dude sometimes I go to dark places And I don’t know why
I don’t wanna take you there
Am Dm
No, I don’t wanna take you there
CF
Cuz I only wanted the true...
CGFF
True love is
True flame
Keep on burning, baby
If true love is
A twin flame
Then keep on burning, baby
Am7 G C F
If I’m faraway
If I fadeaway
Keep on burning, baby
Am G F F
And if some other one can your light the way Then keep on burning, baby
C F Am Dm
Love affair
May come and go
How strong are the ties that bind?
What you want
And what you know
Ain’t always one of a kind
Ain’t that the bind
Ain’t that the rub
Chorus
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13. |
Skin
03:28
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Dm G Am C F
We cut our skin, I let her blood touch mine
Now I feel better that we're friends for life
Hey man, whatever gets you through the night
I sleep forever like I'm scared to die
Ma’ bought a ticket so I’m headed home
Don't know where from there I'll roam
Sometimes I think I'm better off alone
And then I pick up the telephone
G C F Am Dm Am F C
All that I can ask of you
Is for the love left over from a childhood doom
And all that I would ask of you
Is for the love left over from a childhood bloom
Dm G Am C F
I dreamt I was lost and cold
Without a lover, without a home
Yet, I was smiling from ear to ear
Got nothing to lose and you got nothing to fear
She said, “And that’s the problem with you in my life...”
See, I’m committed to the flesh of time
Sorrow escapes the meaningless
And then it drowns you before you're dead
G C F Am Dm Am F C
All that I could give to you
Is the love left over from a childhood doom
And all that I would ask of you
Is for the love left over from a childhood bloom
C F G C F Am
Oh, it’s all gone, gone...
When you leave it all behind know that I haven’t left you
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14. |
Runaway
04:56
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CGFF
Do what you love Big Easy Baby
I ain’t giving up on the masquerade
And I love you too much to keep you down
Even if I only ever wanted to make you proud
Am G C F
Yeah, when we fell in love, babe, we were just kids
Said I never felt a love, baby, quite like this
Oh, neither did I
Got me to run away a couple more times
Yeah, when you met me I was a runaway
And I’m still tryna find my place
CGFF
The tear drying tonic gonna give me a headache
It fixes the broke and the heartbroken like a band aid
And the wind and the sun might do ya one better
But she gonna get away if you don’t get it together
Chorus
Am
And the view of the sunset don’t feel like the end it is
C
And my wild best friend, no, she don’t feel like she once did
G
And the tires loosing tread, and the tank is in the red
F
And you wonder if you’ll ever get to do all those things that you said.... Chorus
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15. |
Ripe Rot
03:57
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D A Em Em
This pretty baby I’ll never make her mine
She only her own even after we sign on the line
She wear your gold before she wear your name GADD
All the while show ya fire that burn through the rain Down to the crossroads where east meets west Where the lost souls pledge themselves to happiness You wanna make me a man?
I got an heirloom rock for the ring
If it don’t scare you then it don’t scare me
G Gmaj7 Em Em (walk F#)
If it don’t scare you, pretty baby...
A Em G A
Then it don’t scare me...
D A Em Em
We had a great party and we made a great mess
And we left in the morning with the treasure chest Got a rose in a vase on the table with a ripe rot sheen Tell me, darling, you know what that mean?
G Gmaj7 Em Em (walk F#)
If it don’t scare you, pretty baby... A Em G A Then it don’t scare me...
D No, it don’t scare me ‘cause I love you
A7sus4 D As much as I could
A7sus4 Em Know what that means
G Em A Know what that means?
Yes, I love you
As much as I could know what that means
Know what that means?
I know what that means
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16. |
Rest & Relaxation
04:24
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CGDG
Girl in a bikini on postcard I just received
Postmarked from Florida, said, “Joe, We oughta grab a drink...
C4 blew out the jailhouse walls and now I’m free
Booked a room at the Cinnamon Heights under Bobby McGee”
My game ain’t slow, I’ll take a Mai Tai poolside
I got an LA number, a New York license, a bucket of ice
Lost looking in Someplace, USA for a true duet
Bellyaches still make me long for someone kismet
And I could use a little rest and relaxation
Survival is in the schoolyard beating up on good vibrations
The fares are dropping now on flights out to Grenada
My name ain’t Joe, but I don’t know, maybe I’ll meet ya
CGDD
My name ain’t Joe, but I don’t know....maybe I’ll meet ya
CGDG
Palm trees, Sea & Ski, Christmas lights
Santo and Johnny paint the sunset like a shrine
Fill the pool with stripes; Clarke’s Court Pure White
So we can toast to all the misplaced valentines
And I could use a little rest and relaxation
Throw your Hoover out the window and wail in jubilation
Get quick to a place where your credence cannot find you
My name ain’t Joe, but I don’t know, maybe I’ll do...
CGDD
My name ain’t Joe, but I don’t know....maybe I’ll meetcha
CGDG
And I could use a little rest and relaxation
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