Capo 5th fret

F5  C5

F5             C5               F5          C5
When I was a child, my mother said to me
F5                                          C5           F5               G5          C5
You can?t spend all your days alone In the shade of a cherry tree
F5                              C5                              F5            C5            C5
My brother cut the roof off a Lincoln, cause his doctor said lose some weight
F5        C5
And the tape of Buck Owens, my hair was blowing,
C5           F5         G5          C5         F5     C5   C5
 as they drove from the garden state to the lights of the golden gate

F5             C5                                    G5
I?ve been missing you, so listen, id like to ask you could you drive to town?
F5             C5                                    G5
And I?ve been thinking about your Lincoln continental with the sunroof down


F5                                          C5                     F5                   C5
When the kid came down from Lennox, yeah, yawning was the talk of the town
F5                                       C5                     F5      G5             C5
A real high roller, a self-promoter, said the band was the best around
F5                                   C5                    F5                               
  C5                C5
He said I got a little money from the performing; I bought a new suit and hat
F5                                        C5                                        F5 G5    
               C5
I said, "Performing what?," you said, "Classic stuff Ricky Hayes and Virginia scat."
F5                     C5              C5
I said, "Who the hell is that?"

F5                                               C5                                        
            G5
But I can play a little old time fiddle; we can start a little country band.
F5                                               C5                                        
               G5
And I was thinking in your Lincoln we can bum around the promise land

A5          C5            A5               G5
And the world will open up for us
A5          C5            A5               G5
at least I brought our broken cup(?)

F5                             C5              F5                             C5
Probation officer john Collins was a paranoid psychopath
F5                                    C5                     F5                G5            
                   C5             C5
He had to paint the fence by the roller rink for the committee of industrial trash
F5                                                      C5
You can?t find the business end of a rifle
F5                                          C5
You?re the devil from an Irish saint
F5                          C5                                           F5          G5      
  C5
I said I got no cares in those affairs what I was, what I am , or ain't
  F5                        C5      C5
I got a lot of fence to paint

F5                                          C5                                       G5
I've got no loving all because I got in from crossing lines
F5                                          C5                                       G5
You got me thinking, even Lincoln, must have felt a little lost sometime

A5          C5             A5              G5
And the world will open up for us
A5          C5             A5              G5
at least I brought our broken cup(?)


C5
Show more