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***Capo 1***


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       A
I was driving through my hometown
          D                 A
I was just kinda killin' time

When I seen a face staring out of black velvet painting
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From the window of the five and dime

I couldn't quite recall the name
 D                         A
But the pose looked familiar to me

So I asked  the salesgirl, "Who was that man
             E                A
Between the doberman and Bruce Lee?"
                 D          A
She said, "Just a local hero"
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"Local hero," she said with a smile
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"Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while."

        A
I met a stranger dressed in black

At the train station
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He said, "Son your soul can be saved"

There's beautiful women nights of low livin'
          E                  D    A
And some dangerous money to be made

There's a big  town 'cross the whiskey line
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And if we turn the right cards up

They make us boss the devil pays off
         E                    A
And them folks that are real hard up
              D         A
They get their local hero
      D                       A
Yeah, somebody with  the right style
               D        A
They get their local hero
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Somebody with just the right smile

                        A
Well I learned my job I learned it well
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Fit myself with religion and a story to tell
        D                        A
First they made me the king then they made me pope
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Well, then they brought the rope

          A
I woke to a gypsy girl sayin', "Drink this"
         D                   A
Well my hands had lost all sensation

These days I'm feeling all right 
         E                      D             A
'Cept I can't tell my courge from my desperation

From the tainted chalice
     D                   A
Wel I drunk some heady wine

Tonight I'm layin' here

But there's something in my ear
       E                           A
Sayin' there's a little town just beneath the floodline
       D        A
Needs a local hero
       D                      A
Yeah, somebody with the right style
              D        A
Lookin' for a local hero
       D                      A
Yeah, someone with the right smile
               D       A       D                     A
Lookin'  for a local hero, yeah somebody woth the right smile

(fade out)


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