• Song:

    Clay Pigeons

  • Artist:

    John Prine

  • Album:

    Fair & Square

Song: Clay Pigeons
Artist: John Prine (originally Blaze Foley)
Capo on 3rd
Note:This is the way that John Prine plays it in the live performance I've seen

Intro:
G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D , G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D G (320003@1)G (320003@1)                                                 C (x32010@1)     
I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna buy a ticket to ride
       G (320003@1)                                           DGonna (xx0232@1)find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
 G (320003@1)                                                 CRide (x32010@1)'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
  GSmokin' (320003@1)cigarettes in the last seat
   D (xx0232@1)
Sing my song for the people I meet
   GAnd (320003@1)get along with it all
    Cwhere (x32010@1)the people say "y'all"
      GSing (320003@1)a song with a friend
    DChange (xx0232@1)the shape that I'm in,
      GAnd (320003@1)get back in the game,
     C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)GAnd (320003@1)start playin' again

G (320003@1)                                    CI'd (x32010@1)like to stay but I might have to go to start over again
    G (320003@1)                                                 DMight (xx0232@1)go back down to Texas, might go to somewhere that Ive never been
    GAnd (320003@1)get up in the mornin' and go out at night
            CAnd (x32010@1)I won't have to go home
           GGet (320003@1)used to bein' alone
           DChange (xx0232@1)the words to this song
       G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
Start singin' again

(Repeat Intro)

G (320003@1)                                                    CIm (x32010@1)tired of runnin round lookin for answers to questions that I already know
        G (320003@1)                                         DI (xx0232@1)could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go
          G (320003@1)                                                  CCount (x32010@1)the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle again

GFeed (320003@1)the pigeons some clay
          DTurn (xx0232@1)the night into day
      G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
Start talkin' again, when I know what to say

(Repeat Intro)

G (320003@1)                                         CI'm (x32010@1)goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna buy a ticket to ride
      G (320003@1)                                           DGonna (xx0232@1)find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
  G (320003@1)                                                CRide (x32010@1)'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
         GSmokin' (320003@1)cigarettes in the last seat
         DSing (xx0232@1)my song for the people I meet
          GAnd (320003@1)get along with it all

Cwhere (x32010@1)the people say "y'all"
          GFeed (320003@1)the pigeons some clay
         DTurn (xx0232@1)the night into day
       G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)GStart (320003@1)talkin' again, when I know what to say



(Repeat Intro)

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