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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 06:44:09 -0700
From: brucea@tic.ab.ca (Bruce Armstrong)
Subject: /a/animals/white_houses.crd
White Houses - Animals
A (x02220@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)name="chord_022100@1">E x 2
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EWhite (022100@1)houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) ETumbled (022100@1)down black shacks over the tracks children so hungry they could cry
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThe (022100@1)chrome the steel the metal dream leaving the teepee to rot
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThe (022100@1)escapist young mind left behind saving dimes for community pot
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
You better get straight
E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) GBetter, (320003@1)better get straight
D (xx0232@1)name="chord_022100@1">E A (x02220@1) GI (320003@1)mean you better get straight right now
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D EBetter (022100@1)get it, you better, better get straight babe
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThey're (022100@1)crying out for love all the time but they fail to see their
neighbours eyes
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThe (022100@1)TV is on 6 o'clock news the channel's in full colored lies
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThe (022100@1)company meets, the President speaks he's young but his bones creak
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EYoung (022100@1)girl dresses for the high school dance and the guy next door is dyin'
for a peek
A (x02220@1) GGet (320003@1)straight
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) GYou (320003@1)better, yeah, you better get straight babe
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) GOh (320003@1)did you get what I said, I said to you
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) AThat (x02220@1)you, you better, you better get angry
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EYou (022100@1)better, you better get straight
SOLO (32 bars)
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EThey (022100@1)put a bible in the drawer of the motel room and it's crying out to be read
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) EBut (022100@1)it stays right there collecting dust, no one understands what's being said
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) ELovers (022100@1)make love in comfy boxes, what will tomorrow bring
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)
EThey've (022100@1)been told that it's wrong but they don't give a damn, soon another
life it will bring
A (x02220@1) GYou (320003@1)better get straight baby
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) GYeah (320003@1)you, you better get straight baby
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) GOh (320003@1)and I think I better get myself to get it babe
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
You know what I mean I been bent so very long
D (xx0232@1) EI (022100@1)wanna fly right, I wanna do it alright
etc.
Bruce