• Song:

    Touch Of Evil

  • Artist:

    Tom Russell

  • Album:

    Borderland

capo 2nd fret 
The C5 is optional on the 3rd verse, Tom stays on G5 on some lines/) 

Intro: G5 C5 x2 
 
    G5                       C5                             G5   C5 
The night my baby left me I crossed the bridge to Juarez avenue 
C5         G5                               C5                             G5      
Like that movie "Touch of evil" I got the Orson Wells, Marlene Dietrich blues 
C5           G5 
Where Orson walks in to the whore house and 
C5                                G5  C5 
Marlene says "Man, you look like hell" 
            G5  
And Orson's chewing on a chocolate bar 
        C5 
as the lights go on in the old Blue Star hotel 
         C5                                                           B5 
"Read my future" says old Orson, "down inside the tea leaves of your cup" 
              A5 
And she says "You ain't got no future, Hank, 
C5               D5                G5 
I believe your future's all used up" 
 

                  C5                               G5 
    Why don't you touch me anymore? Why don't you touch me anymore? 
               D5                              G5                    ( G5 ) 
    Why do you run away and hide? You know it hurts me deep inside 
               C5                                 G5 
    Why do you close the bedroom door? This is a brutal little war 
                 D5                                  C5           G5 
    What good is all this fightin' for if you don't touch me anymore? 
 

G5 C5 
(Chords like 1st verse, until notice) 
     G5                           C5                      G5 C5 
They shot "A touch of evil" in a Venice, California colony 
C5               G5 
And I grew near those dead canals 
                      C5                     G5 
where they filmed the longest pan shot ever made 
C5                 G5                   C5                               G5     C5 
Now I'm thinking about the movie, the bar I'm in, the bridge, the Rio Grande 
         G5                             C5 
Now I'm thinking about my baby and the borderline 'tween a woman and a man 
       C5                                                         B5 
I was drunk as Orson Wells the night I crawled backwards out the door 
      A5                    C5            D5           G5 
I was screaming "Baby, baby how come you touch me anymore?" 
 
CHORUS: 
G5 C5 x3 
(Chords like 2nd verse) 
        G5                         C5                                    G5  C5 
Oh, someone rolled the credits on twenty years of love turned dark and raw 
      C5            G5                C5                          G5 
Not a technicolor love film , it's a brutal document, it's film noir 
         C5                   G5                  C5                        G5  C5 
And it's all played out on a borderline and the actors are tragically miscast 
                  G5                   C5 
Like a Mexican burlesk show where the characters are wearing comic masks 
         C5                                                           B5 
Oh, it's love and love alone I cry to the barmen in this Juarez waterhole 
              A5                 C5                 D5          G5 
As we raise a glass to Orson and "A touch of evil" livin' our souls 
 
CHORUS: 
 
Outro: 
G5 C5 x3 G5 (Stop)
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