Wednesday, June 4, 2008

June 4: Getting On


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June 6, 2008 at 5:49 PM
SweepAnd Mopp said...

Getting On

[Am] Just beyond the
[Dm] railroad tracks
[Am] downtown,
[Am] sits the old
[Dm] Dead Men Walking
[Am] Tavern.
[Am] You can see the
[Dm] neon sign from the
[Am] highway.
[Am] Barbara locks the
[Dm] doors at two [Am] a.m.
[Am] She opens up
[Dm] at sunrise for the
[Am] graveyard shift.

[Am] Cecil and Ernie and
[Dm] Bruno and Walter and
[Am] Frank:
[Am] Ancient lives filled with
[Dm] lovers, lost fortunes and
[Am] fame
[Am] sitting on the barstools,
[Dm] sleeping in their cars; they're
[Am] trecherous.
[Am] Stinking and drinking and
[Dm] waiting for the end to
[Am] come.

[Am] Cecil was a
[Dm] warrior back in
[Am] Vietnam.
[Am] He snuffed the lights
[Dm] out of the eyes of
[Am] 17 boys.
[Am] But nobody [F] knows.
Nobody [G7] knows.
Nobody [Am] knows.

[Am] Ernie owned the
[Dm] KitKat Klub in the
[Am] city.
[Am] Cocaine, booze and
[Dm] women took it
[Am] all.
[Am] But nobody [F] knows.
Nobody [G7] knows.
Nobody [Am] knows.

[Am] Bruno was a
[Dm] legendary
[Am] athlete.
[Am] A freak car crash and a
[Dm] severed spine took it
[Am] all away.
[Am] But nobody [F] knows.
Nobody [G7] knows.
Nobody [Am] knows.

[Am] Walter was a star on
[Dm] American [Am] Bandstand.
[Am] His muse went away and
[Dm] took his spirit with
[Am] her.
[Am] But nobody [F] knows.
Nobody [G7] knows.
Nobody [Am] knows.

[Am] Frank was the
[Dm] mayor of the
[Am] city.
[Am] When his son died
[Dm] Frank died alive with
[Am] him.
[Am] But nobody [F] knows.
Nobody [G7] knows.
Nobody [Am] knows.

[Am] Lily white boys in their
[Dm] twenties think they
[Am] know.
[Am] Sad old men who are
[Dm] nothing like them at
[Am] all.
[Am] But they don't [F] know.
They don't [G7] know.
Someday they'll [Am] know.

June 6, 2008 at 5:50 PM

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