**Grant seems to have changed his vocal style slightly since Fuzzy and=20
this makes it difficult to decipher some of his lyrics (particularly when=
=20
they=92re not provided in the sleeve). So, I apologize if and when my=20
interpretations are incorrect - I=92ll do my best. He didn=92t develop a=
=20
speech impediment, did he?! Any suggestion are more than welcome. Oh, and=
=20
Grant, if you=92re out there, please, please, please give us a hand!**
Tune guitar down half a step for entire album (Eflat, Aflat, Dflat,=20
Gflat, Bflat, Eflat).
Lone Star Song =20
Intro & Verse riff:
E[-----------7------------------------------7------------------------]
B[-------7--------10--7------7------7--------10--7--------------]
G[-9b----------------------------9b---------------------9b---7---]
D[--------------------------------------------------------------------]
A[--------------------------------------------------------------------]
E[ -------------------------------------------------------------------]
B5
There's a bullet in the heart tonight
E5 D5
In the heart of Texas
B5
??????????????????
E5 D5
We are rolling home
B5
They shot the angel in mid flight
E5 D5
And now she won't protect us
B5
They shot it to the friendly mass
E5 D=20
We are westward, ho
=20
A5 D5
Hurray the holy war is ending
B5 A5
Like in the films of Hollywood
D5
And the angels are descending
B5 F#5 D5
Like Koresh said they would before too long
F#5 B5
Sing our lone star song
They had him nailed up to a T
With a T for Texas
His disciples with artillery
They held the fort inside
And by the time the story broke
Down in Dealy Plaza
We already caught the smoke
Read the TV guide
Pray the holy war is ending
Like the films of Hollywood
And the choppers are descending
Like Marina said they would before too long
Sing our lone star song
D5
Lone star song
A5 D5
In the south, words they can't help
B5 D5
But escape my mouth ????????
A5 B5
Down the house, day upon day
G5 E5
Day upon day, day upon day
Hurray the holy war is ending
Like in the films of Hollywood
And the trumpet's blast is blending
With the crack of burning wood before too long
Sing our lone Star song
D5
Lone star song
Lone star=20
Outro: B5 E5 D5
**Credit is due to Shane Shepard, David Kipp and the Mulchman for helping=
=20
to figure out the lyrics.**
Mockingbirds
A5 G5 D5
Devastation at last, finally we meet
A5 G5 D5
After all of these years out here in the street
A5 G5 D5
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
A5 G5 D5
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
B5 D5
Now I have been overthrown, overthrown
A5 G5 F#5
And I thought If I toed the right lines
A5 G5 F#5
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought, I'm overwrought
And I thought If I toed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought If I toed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
E5 A5
One day this ground will break =20
E5 A5 F#5 B5
and open up for me I hope it will, I hope it will=20
Solo: E5 D5 A5
E[------------------------------------------------------]
B[---(b9)-12--9s7--7--7--(b9)-7--5-------5---------]
G[--------------------------------------6--------------]
E5 D5 A5 =20
Salutations at last, I'm down on my knees
E5 D5 A=09
I heard the bugle this morn blast Revilie
E5 D5 A5
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
E5 D5 A5
All my sails were ablaze, I was chained to the helm
F#5 A5
Now I am overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed
E5 D5 C#5 A5 =20
And I thought if I toed the right lines
E5 D5 C#=20
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
A5 G5 F#5
And I thought If I told the right lines
A5 G5 F#5
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Outro solo:
E[---(b9)-12--9s7--7--7--(b9)-7--5-------5---------]
B[---------------------------------------7-------------]
**Thanks to David Kipp for help with a couple of the lyrics**
It=92s The Life
This figure is played throughout the entire song:
D5
E[--------------2-----------2-------------------2----------2-----------]B=
[----------3------3-----------------------3-------3--------------------]G=
[------2--------------2---------------0---------------0---------------]D[=
---0------------------------------0------------------------------------]
If the life you have created
Has buried you in luxuries outdated
And you ask: "What is the purpose?"
Too weak to claw your way up to the surface
You resent all of your trophies
They belittle human spirit like a time piece
That is ticking in your breast pocket
And so you long to reach in and stop it
Then your heart, it will be broken
And every sour word that you have spoken
About everybody else
Will return to act upon yourself
If the life you have created=20
Is founded on jealousy and hatred
It=92s too late to ask questions
For you=92re much too old to take any suggestions
It=92s the life you have created
It=92s the life you have created
It=92s the life
It is the life
It is the life
It is the life
Sing Along
**Of all the tracks on Mighty Joe Moon, this is the one I really struggle=
=20
to figure out the lyrics to. These are more than likely way off line so=20
please bear with me.**
Intro:
F#5 D5
The little lead riff over the D chord is:
E[----13--13--13--13--13--13----12--12--12--12--12--12-----]
B[----13--13--13--13--13--13----12--12--12--12--12--12-----]
F#5 D5
Hallelujah, the wheel
F#5 D5
A hound=92s life is for me
F#5 D5
Everything but the kitchen sink
F#5 D5
He built it just for me
F#5 D5
Hallelujah, you=92re the fan
F#5 D5
That lead me to the ???
F#5 D5
I built you a river=20
F#5 D5
But I=92m still not through with this ark
A5 G5 F#5
Man built a furnace
D5 E5
A Mercedez Benz
A5 G5 F#5 D5 E5
Man built the cities of Kansas and Berlin
A5 G5 F#5
Man slew the bisons
D5 E5
And he built a Thieves=92 Road
A5 G5 F#5 D5 E5
That pass over Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lead to the motherlode =20
F#5 D5
Motherlode
Hallelujah, the wheel
A fool=92s life is for me
Steppin=92 off a parapet
Where they don=92t live in ????
Hallelujah, the girl
That wields it=92s path through the wall
I built you a hammer with a thick head and long claw
Man built an empire
Out of ocean and earth
Man built the prisons, the Joliets, San Quentin, Levenworth
And man built a market from Ohama to Rome
Evil Knievel and the legacy of John Wayne Gacey, Gacey
E5 F#5
But I can sing along **Buggered if I can figure out the harmony part=20
here. 'Miracle...' perhaps? Aaaggh!!**
E5 F#5 A=09
But I can sing along, sing along=20
E5 F#5
But I can sing along
E5 F#5 A=09
But I can sing along, sing along, sing along
E5 F#m=09
Man built a furnace
E5 A5
A Mercedez Benz
E5 F#5 C#5 E5
Man built the cities of Kansas and Berlin
**Thanks to Dee Oneil for pointing out my glaring error i.e the 'legacy=20
of John Wayne Gacey" bit and Benjy Mokotoff for 'Mercedez Benz' and=20
'slew'!**
Mighty Joe Moon
E5 A5 D=20
Have you been to the Cumberland Gap, oh no
E5 A5 D=20
Fix your eyes on the green of the map, oh no
E5 A5 D5 C5 A5
Where the Appalachians rise, oh no, oh no
E5 A5 D=20
Have you tasted the finest of trout, oh no
E5 A5 D5 =20
Have you sleep in a log-burning house, oh no
E5 A5 D5 C5 =20
A5
With your feet flopping over the couch oh no oh no
=20
C5 F#5 C5
But Mighty Joe Moon there is no controlling him
C5 F#5 C5
Drive off the bridge if you choose to swim
C5 F#5 C5
Mighty Joe Moon can't prevent what is heaven sent
F#5 C5
Joe can't control where his money goes
A5
He=92s Mighty Joe
=20
E5 A5 D=20
Have you been to the Cumberland Gap oh no
E5 A5 D5 C5 =20
A5
The air is sweeter than oranges there oh no oh no
**Thanks to Jeff for a couple of the lyrics and the A chord.**
Demon Called Deception
B5 A5 G5 Em=09
I=92m in tight with a demon called Deception
B5 A5 G5 E5
It=92s alright, he=92s a-treatin=92 me quite well
B5 A5 G5 E5 =09
I=92m in tight with a demon called Deception
B5 A5 G5 E5 =09
He=92s right beside me when I fell
To whisper words like, brother, nothin=92 here is any good
See the birds, they=92re a-dropping like a star wormwood
And all I wanted was a little patch of green
We were peasants, and the cotton was our king
And in the fields, how I sing a prisoner=92s song
Well, Deception whistles right along, right along
B5 A5 G5 E5
John, he sang for a pocket full of pills
When Deception was a-clicking his high-heels
We=92re in tight, playin=92 seven one night stands
And Deception made me as I am=20
As I am
As I am
As I am
As I am
Tight, and we=92re tight and we=92re tight, and we=92re...
D5 G5
Truth is low and tired
E5 D5
I barely saw the light
D5 G=09
And just as they came clean
E5 D5 G5 F#5 Em=09
=09
Something saved my skin, something saved my skin
Lady Godiva And Me
Intro: D5 D5 G5 G5
D5 A5 G5
She rides un-cloaked through the streets of Coventry
D5 A5 G5 =09
Upon a great cock horse, ahead of the ????
D5 A5 G=20
I wore a minotaur=92s mask and I blame =91em on cow
D5 A5 G5
I was the last to see her anyhow
D5 G5 F5
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see
D5 G5 F5
Lady Godiva and me
Peeping Tom watched the whole thing from the side lines
=91Til the Peeping Tom=92s peepin=92 had stricken poor Peeping Tom blind
Even those things that we know can be seen with two eyes
All those who look her over are surely to die
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see Lady Godiva and me
Heavier bit: D5 C5 F5
D5 C5 F5 =09
Bullet all the things of your hardened youth
D5 C5 F5
Harder than you wanted to be
D5 C5 F5
Bury my bones in the stinking sands
D5 C5 F=09
To save her for the world to see
D5 C5 F5
I=92ve got the mean streak
D5 C5 F5
I=92ve got the mean streak
Bridge:
E5 F5 G5 A5 G5 E5
E5 F5 G5 F5 D=09
The crook's in town
????????
Thing's he's saying I can't repeat
When you're walking down there, down there
D5 G5 F5
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see
D5 G5 F5
Lady Godiva and me
Drag
Intro: E5 C#5
E5 C#m=09
Shoot that cannonball into my wings
E5 C#5
Shoot that cannonball into my wings
A5
Into my wings
D5
???????????
E5
You better tell me sweet things
Fold your pretty head into my ????
Fold your pretty head into my ????
A5
Isn=92t it quaint?=20
D=09
Isn=92t it queer?
E5 C5 E5 C5
You better drag me back here, here
Solo:
D[-----------2-------------2------2--4--6b---]
A[---2--4------4--2--4------4----------------]
E[------------------------------------------------]
Sing Van Morrison: "Would you kiss a-my eyes?"
Sing Van Morrison: "Would you kiss a-my eyes?"
Singing it low, singing it high
Would you kiss my eye? My eyes
B5
Turn me on my ear=20
A5 E5 C5 =09
=09
When you drag me right back here, here
E5 C5 E5 C=20
You drag me back here, you drag me back here
E5 C5 E5 =20
C5 =20
You drag me back, j-j-just drag me back here
E5 C#5 E5 C#5 E5 C5
Last Days of Tecumseh
In the last days of Tecumseh, there in the end
There were rumours of invasions and even talk of spacemen
But he couldn=92t believe all that he knew would fade
In the ground, below the airplanes, Tecumseh laid
Happiness
Intro: F5 C5 G5 D5
F5 C5 =09
Never mind me =91cause I=92ve been dead
G5 D5 F5
Out of my body, been out of my head
C5
Never mind the songs they hum
D5 G5 F5
Don=92t wanna sing along with nothin=92 that I said
A5 B5
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
F5 C5 D=09
It=92s hard to come by, I confess
A5 B5
I=92m better at this than happiness,=20
F5 C5 G5 A5 D5 F5 =09
If you find it, share it with the rest of us
Never mind the words that came=20
Out of my mouth when all I could feel was pain
The difference in the two of us
Comes down to the way you rise over things I just put down
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
It=92s hard to come by, I confess
I=92m better at this than, happiness
If you find it share it with the rest of us, the rest of us
Never mind me =91cause I=92ve been dead
Out of my body, been out of my head
Never mind the curse of war
Proud like a badge that just don=92t shine no more
A5 B5
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
F5 C5 D=09
Hard to come by, I confess
A5 B5
I=92m better at this than happiness,=20
F5 C5 G5 A5 D5 F5 C5 G5 Am=09
=09
If you find it, share it with the rest of us
**Thanks to David Kipp for help with the chorus and the songs they=20
'hum'.**
Honey Don=92t Think
Intro & Verse riff:
E[--0---0---0---0--------3---3---------------------0---0---0---0-------0-=
--0-----3---3---]
B[--1---1---1---1--------3---3-------------3------1---1---1---1-------0--=
-0-----3---3---]
G[--2---0---0--h2p0----0---0----4--5-----------2---0---0--h2p0---0---0---=
--0---0---]
D[--3---3---3---3--------0---0---------------------3---3---3---3-------2-=
--2-----0---0---]
A[--0---0---0---0--------2---2---------------------0---0---0---0-------2-=
--2-----2---2---]
E[--------------------------3---3----------------------------------------=
----0---0---------------]
F5 G5
It=92s the luck of the draw
F5 E5
How you wound up with me
G5 F=09
I don=92t know how at all
G5
But I beg you to stay
F5 E5 =20
Crawl around on this earth
G5 C=09
Well, the world=92s too small
G5 F=09
Honey, don=92t think about it too long, now
C5 G5 F5 G5
Honey, don=92t think you=92ll ever want to figure me out
Something wrong with my stars
Could you look at my chart
And help me heal these scars?
Could you learn to read minds?
Or, in the case of mine=20
Could you read in the dark?
G5 F=09
Honey, don=92t think about it too long, now
C5 G5 F5 G5
Honey, don=92t think you=92ll ever want to figure me out
F5
Don=92t want to figure me out
E5
Don=92t wanna lose
Side By Side
Intro:
E C#m E C#m then: B[---5--5--5--5--7b--5--]=20
E5 C#5 E5 C#m=09
The fear of falling, a fear that I could
E5 C#5 E5 C#5
>From a place high above my stars, well, I would
E5 C#5 E5 C#5 =09
Be a liar to say "I=92m not scared anymore."
E5 C#5 E5 C#5 =09
With a fear of falling on down to the floor
A5
To the floor
G5 A5
Release the have-nots and the haves to life
G5 A5
But tablescraps and lantern light
G5
And on this spot
A5 G5 E=09
At last tonight, side by side by side
The fear of losing this war is enough
But then I hold my head ????? in my gloves
And I wait for this stone age to slow to a stop
But I fear that we=92re nowhere near to a crawl, to a crawl
E5 A5 G5 E5 =09
A5 G=09
I gotta tell you there=92s descension in the souplines for they don=92=
t=20
have much to show
E5 A5 G5 =09
But if you don=92t believe you=92re standing on a landmine
F#5 A5 F#5 =09
A5 E5
You=92ll just have to wait =91til it blows, you=92ll just have =
to=20
wait =91til it blows, blows
A5
To the floor
Unlisted instrumental
It=92s just: G and D
Rock of Ages
Intro: G5 D5 C5 A5
G5 D5 C5 =09
Rock of ages, I am tumbling down
A5 G5
Where the roots of trees embrace you, I do fall
D5 C5 Am=09
Upon my knees and ask you how you can just sit there and be
G5 D5 C=09
Rock of ages, I am crumbling now
A5 G5
In an avalanche, I=92m reaching for the rock of ages
D5 A5 C5
Rock of ages
Solo:
E[--------------------------------------------------------------------7--=
---]
B[------------------------------------------------------------3----------=
---]
G[-----------------------------------------------------2--4-----4--------=
-]
D[---5--5s7--7s(b9)-(b9)-7--5--7--5------2s4s5-----------------------]
A[----------------------------------------7------------------------------=
---]
E[-----------------------------------------------------------------------=
---]
Father, oh, I have stepped beyond my bounds
And the pack I wear, it weighs a thousand pounds
It drags me down, making anything crazy=20
Oh, now rock of ages
I have gone astray
I heard my brother call and I turned the other way
Now I=92m ashamed to face him
Oh, now rock of ages, rock of ages
Oh, now rock of ages, rock of ages
Reach for the rock of ages, rock of ages
In the avalanche, in the avalanche
Heavy rock, and I reach for the rock, I reach for the rock
In the avalanche that falls
Oh, I reach for the rock and I reach for the rock,=20
In the avalanche, in the avalanche
Heavy rock, heavy rock, such a heavy rock
