• Song:

    Cartoon Gold

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    Go-Go Boots

Intro

E...F#m...E...Abm...A9...B...E

Verse

E
I'm not too good with numbers
         F#m                                       E         Abm 
I just count on knowing when I am high enough

A9
A mule with only two legs counting steps
B                                     E       Abm
towards dangling carrots; don't add up


Chorus

A9
I think about you when I can
B                                  C#m  C#m
And even sometimes when I can't, I do

A9
Once the driver knows you got good 
B                                   E
sense, he takes away the carrots, too


Interlude

E...F#m...E...Abm...A9...B...E


 
Verse

E
Getting all excited
           F#m                          E          Abm
Finding nothing that was never there before

A9
Is like bringing flowers to your mama
B                                     E         Abm
And tracking dog shit all over the floor

Chorus 

A9
Jesus made the flowers, but it took the
B                        C#m  C#m
dog to make the story good

A9
I think about you when I can
B                                          E
And sometimes when I don't, I probably should


Interlude

F#m...Abm...C#m...C#m (2x)


Verse

E
Tending bar in L.A. 
             F#m                           E    Abm
After dark, must be like mining cartoon gold

A9
Rocks that won?t cooperate and 
B                                       E    Abm
tools will drive you crazy, must get old

Chorus

A9
I think about you when I can
B                                        C#m  C#m
And sometimes when I do, I still get caught 

A9
Sitting in a bar in LA 
B                             A9 
After dark with my sunglasses on

Outro

E...F#m...E...Abm...A9...B...E
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