TWO GIRLS
by Townes Van Zandt
(Live at The Old Quarter)

My version's just a little different from the previous version:

Standard tuning
Capo 3
*Townes does a bunch of hammer on's and off's throughout, especially on C, Am and Dm.

Intro  with a bunch of hammer on's:
C-Dm-C-C

         C                       Dm
Well the clouds didn't look like cotton,
            G     F         C
they didn't even look like clouds.
                    Dm
I was underneath the weather,
        G             F       C
and my friends looked like a crowd.
     Am              Dm
The swimmin hole was full of rum,
  F                 C
I tried to find out why.
   C              Dm
All I learned was this my friend,
              G      F        C
you've got to swim before you fly.

CHORUS:
         F    C
I've got two girls,
         Am            Dm
one's in heaven, one's below.
Am              Dm
Oh one I love with all my heart,
    G     F      C
and one I do not know.

Two lonesome dudes on an ugly horse,
passed by not long ago.
They asked me where the action was,
I said I did not know.
And as they disappeared into the brush,
I heard the driver say.
He's a little slow between the ears,
he's always been that way.
CHORUS
Jolly Jane just lays around and listens with her mouth.
She's had about a dozen husbands,
but the last one just pulled out.
Now who's gonna bring her dinner,
through the weary years ahead?
All she'll get from me is sympathy,
got no time to see she's fed.
CHORUS
Now cold down on the bayou,
they say it's in your mind.
But the moccasins are treadin' ice,
and leavin' strange designs.
Cajuns say the last time,
this happened they weren't here.
All Beaumont's full of penguins,
and I'm a playin' it by ear.
CHORUS x2