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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 20:59:31 -0400
From: jfrankel@intr.net (Jarrett Frankel)
Subject: heartland_feelings.crd

Song: "Heartland Feelings"
Artist:  Beck
From: Golden Feelings (Sonic Enemy)
Transcribed By: Jarrett Frankel (jfrankel@intr.net)
with much help from John McCain.
Date: July 26, 1995

Here's a sprawling yet immensely jolly epic from the current "Slack
Laureate" of these United States: Beck. If you liked "Mexico", this one's
for you. You can hear this cut on his cassette-only release from a few
years back, Golden Feelings, released on the independent label Sonic Enemy.
This will have to do until the new DGC album hits the streets, huh? By the
way, I've placed the chords over the lyric that marks the progression.
However, the last time I uploaded a file to Nevada, things shifted out of
place. Beware and enjoy.

Spoken word intro:
What we're talking about here is kind of a...it's a...Heartland Feeling.
Mellencamp, you know, kind of a Mellen-feeling.
Ok. What you gotta get together is a Heartland folk singer:
John Couger Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seeger;
That type of feeling: a Mellen-feeling.
You know, a real powerful, approving music
Of a Heartland quality, just powerful straight-forward music.
And if you can't get just the right type of feeling
Find someone who will pass and change them.

COld (x32010@1)Man Johnson got his head in his hand


Makin' his way across state in a fiddlin' band

               AmWith (x02210@1)his hair all down in his eyes

                  CAnd (x32010@1)the microphone all covered with flies.


When he gets done playin' goes back to his room


Climbs into bed in his cowboy boots

                AmAnd (x02210@1)he picks up a magazine turns on the TV

CLights (x32010@1)a cigar as he's fallin' asleep.

                  F (133211@1)      C (x32010@1)      AmWell (x02210@1)he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.

              F (133211@1)            C (x32010@1)    Am(let ring)
Yeah nothing happenin'...that's about it.


CYeah...... (x32010@1)
CWell, (x32010@1)little Rosanna came from Texarkana


Had fourteen dollars wrapped in a bandana.

AmCame (x02210@1)into town not lookin' for much

                  CWell (x32010@1)she found a hound dog and she named him "Dutch."


She got a job at the arcade takin' quarters


But she was never too good at takin' orders

           AmSo (x02210@1)one night she stopped givin' out change

        CShe (x32010@1)kicked the boss in the chin and unplugged the games.

         F (133211@1)            C (x32010@1)     AmShe's (x02210@1)only a person...who doesn't know shit.

F (133211@1)         C (x32010@1)           Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...That's about it.

COoh, (x32010@1)ooh.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.


CSam (x32010@1)got canned at the cannery


He punched out the clock that night.

    AmHis (x02210@1)knuckle was bleeding as he walked home,

            CHe (x32010@1)was cold and he had a headache.


Well his wife was cookin' canned beans,


He took out all the money out of his jeans

              AmAnd (x02210@1)he set it on fire in the kitchen sink

           CAs (x32010@1)his wife handed him a drink.

        F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)     AmHe (x02210@1)was only a person...who didn't know shit.

  F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)         Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.

        CUh, (x32010@1)yeah, oh.  Wooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...


CSmiley (x32010@1)was lookin' for handouts


sleepin' in a abandoned lighthouse.

AmDown (x02210@1)at the mini-mall shakin' his hat

CWashin' (x32010@1)windows with his bare hand.


He found a sports car with the keys


In the ignition it just seemed so easy.

  AmHe (x02210@1)took a joyride drove into a hedge

CCame (x32010@1)out with the steering wheel wrapped around his head.

          F (133211@1)             C (x32010@1)         AmWell (x02210@1)he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.

F (133211@1)             C (x32010@1)      Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.

COoh, (x32010@1)ooh, yeah, yeah.


CWell (x32010@1)Jane was born in a small town


Everybody just standing around.

                 AmThey (x02210@1)had bingo games and a raffle,

Ceverybody (x32010@1)chewin' tobacco.


Well she grew up kinda restless


All her boyfriends wanted to be dentists(dead-ass?).

     AmAnd (x02210@1)she got a job at the truck stop

                   CAnd (x32010@1)she got all fast and never did what she wanted

               F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)       AmAnd (x02210@1)she's only a person...who doesn't know shit.

    F (133211@1)            C (x32010@1)      Am(let ring)
Nothing happenin'...that's about it.

CYeah, (x32010@1)yeah, yo...


Oh yeah...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.


Woo, ooh, ooh....
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