• Song:

    Donkey Town

  • Artist:

    Mark Knopfler

  • Album:

    All the Road Running

Intro:

C5  F5  G5  C5

Chorus:

C5
I've been around in Donkey Town
         F5          C5
Too long, Baby, too long
F5               C5
Checking out of Donkey Town
   G5                 C5
So long, so long, so long.


C5
Her pretty eyes are pretty still
    F5                      C5
But Jim's got a quite of a squint, yeah
  
I dug my last check from out of the mine
      A5                     F5
Now I feel like I've done my stint.
    C5
Jim got an army pension
        F5                        C5
When he walked from the military court
F5           C5            G5         C5
Nobody ever mentions the medical report.



C5
She does little things for me
    F5                          C5
She likes to get the both of us high, yeah

She says I am a tender-hearted man
      A5                            F5
Prince Charming, yeah, sure, I'm the guy.
   C5
He likes the wrecker's dogs on chains
       F5                      C5
And the smoke from the company fires
F5                 C5
Diesel oil in the trucks and cranes
        G5               C5
And the smell of burning tires.

C5
I've been around in Donkey Town
         F5          C5
Too long, Baby, too long
F5               C5
Checking out of Donkey Town
   G5                 C5
So long, so long, so long.

C5
There's a purple heart in a silver tin
      F5             C5
And a grey .45 in a draw, yeah

Most of the time you can drink with him
        A5                   F5
But some other time he's just sore.
   C5
On days when she says she can't think straight
   F5                            C5
Or feels like she's getting the jumps
F5                       C5
She'll go shoot off her .38
   G5                    C5
At cans at a Donkey Town dump.


C5
It was Friday late and she crossed those legs
   F5                      C5
She told me flat out, she would, yeah

If I could pull up my trailer legs
        A5                     F5
We could get away together for good.
  C5
I sure wish her the best of luck
              F5                    C5
She's going to need it, thinking of Jim
F5                         C5
I don't like to leave her stuck
          G5              C5
But she's near as bad as him.


C5
I've been around in Donkey Town
         F5          C5
Too long, Baby, too long
F5               C5
Checking out of Donkey Town
   G5                 C5
So long, so long, so long.
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