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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

AG DE 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)      GD
You better get straight
E (022100@1)                A (x02220@1)       GBetter, (320003@1)better get straight
DE                    A (x02220@1)                 GI (320003@1)mean you better get straight right now
D (xx0232@1)                E (022100@1)                 A (x02220@1)           GD 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)               AG
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