Song: Zip City Band: Drive-By Truckers Album: Southern Rock Opera Tuning: Normal Capo: None ----- Notes ----- #1 - The song is in 4:4, transcribed 1 line per measure #2 - Zip City, AL http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.95675,-87.66901&spn=0.022405,0.025663&t=h&z=15 ----- INTRO ----- Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) A Asus4 A Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) A Asus4 A ------- VERSE 1 ------- D (xx0232@1) -- Your daddy was mad as hell. Bm (x24432@1) -- He was mad at me and you when he G (320003@1) Tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) Out of that ditch that I slid into. D (xx0232@1) -- Don't know what his problem is, Bm (x24432@1) -- Why he keeps sending me away. Don't know G (320003@1) Why I put up with this shit when you Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) Don't put out and Zip City's so far a- D (xx0232@1) Dsus2 (xx0230@1) way. D (xx0232@1) Dsus4 (xx0233@1) -- -- --------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro) --------- ------- VERSE 2 ------- D (xx0232@1) -- Your daddy is a deacon down at the Bm (x24432@1) Salem Church of Christ, and he G (320003@1) Makes good money as long as Reynolds Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) Wrap keeps everything wrapped up tight. D (xx0232@1) -- Your mama's as good a wife and Bm (x24432@1) Mama as she can be, and your G (320003@1) Sister keeps puttin' that sweet stuff on every- Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) body in town but me. A (x02220@1) -- Your brother was the first-born, got ten Bm (x24432@1) Fingers and ten toes, And it's a G (320003@1) Damn good thing cause he needs all twenty just to Em (022000@1) Keep the closet door G (320003@1) Closed. --------- INTERLUDE D (xx0232@1) Dsus2 (xx0230@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) (Repeat Intro) --------- ------- VERSE 3 ------- Em (022000@1) -- Maybe it's the twenty-six mile G (320003@1) Drive from Zip City to Colbert D (xx0232@1) Heights that keeps my mind clean, A (x02220@1) Gets me through the night. Em (022000@1) -- Or maybe you're just a desti- G (320003@1) nation, a place for me to go that D (xx0232@1) Keeps me from having to deal with my A (x02220@1) Seventeen-year-old mind all a- Em (022000@1) lone. So keep your drawers on, girl, G (320003@1) It ain't worth the fight. By the D (xx0232@1) Time you drop them I'll be gone and you'll A (x02220@1) Be right where they fall the rest of your Em *** (see INTERLUDE below) Life --------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro, beat 1 is 'life' from above) (Final "A" &-4-& is leading "you say you're" lyric below) --------- ------- VERSE 4 ------- A (x02220@1) You say you're Em (022000@1) Tired of me taking you for G (320003@1) Granted, Waiting up 'till the last D (xx0232@1) Minute to call you up and see A (x02220@1) What you want to do. But you're Em (022000@1) Only fifteen, girl, you ain't G (320003@1) Got no secretary. And "For D (xx0232@1) Granted" is a mighty big word for a A (x02220@1) Country girl like you. I think that's Em (022000@1) Just your Daddy talking, Cause he G (320003@1) Knows that blood red carpet down at the D (xx0232@1) Salem Church of Christ ain't gonna A (x02220@1) ever see no wedding between Em *** (see INTERLUDE below) me and you. --------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro, beats 1/2 are 'me and you' from above) --------- ------- VERSE 5 ------- D (xx0232@1) Zip City it's a good thing that they Bm (x24432@1) Built the wall around you, Zip G (320003@1) Up to Tennessee then zip right Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) Down to Ala-bama. I got D (xx0232@1) -- 350 heads on a Bm (x24432@1) -- 305 engine, I get G (320003@1) ten miles to the gallon, I ain't Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) got no good in-tentions. ------ FINALE ------ D (xx0232@1) --crookedpath
