Song:   Zip City
Band:   Drive-By Truckers
Album:  Southern Rock Opera
Tuning: Normal
Capo:   None


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Notes
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 #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


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INTRO
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  Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) A Asus4 A

  Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) A Asus4 A


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VERSE 1
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  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) --     --


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INTERLUDE
  (Repeat Intro)
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VERSE 2
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  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.


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INTERLUDE 
  D (xx0232@1)    Dsus2 (xx0230@1) G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1) (Repeat Intro)
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VERSE 3
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  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


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INTERLUDE 
  (Repeat Intro, beat 1 is 'life' from above)
  (Final "A" &-4-& is leading "you say you're" lyric below)
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VERSE 4
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  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.


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INTERLUDE 
  (Repeat Intro, beats 1/2 are 'me and you' from above)
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VERSE 5
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      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.


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FINALE
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  D (xx0232@1)

--crookedpath