Standard (EADGBE)
There's a bullet in the heart tonight
In the heart of Texas
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We are rolling home
They shot the angel in mid flight
And now she won't protect us
They shot it to the friendly mass
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We are westward, ho
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Hurray the holy war is ending
Like in the films of Hollywood
And the angels are descending
Like Koresh said they would before too long
Sing our lone star song
They had him nailed up to a T
With a T for Texas
His disciples with artillery
They held the fort inside
And by the time the story broke
Down in Dealy Plaza
We already caught the smoke
Read the TV guide
Pray the holy war is ending
Like the films of Hollywood
And the choppers are descending
Like Marina said they would before too long
Sing our lone star song
Lone star song
In the south, words they can't help
But escape my mouth ????????
Down the house, day upon day
Day upon day, day upon day
Hurray the holy war is ending
Like in the films of Hollywood
And the trumpet's blast is blending
With the crack of burning wood before too long
Sing our lone Star song
Lone star song
Lone star=20
Outro
Mockingbirds
Devastation at last, finally we meet
After all of these years out here in the street
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
Now I have been overthrown, overthrown
And I thought If I toed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought, I'm overwrought
And I thought If I toed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought If I toed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
One day this ground will break =20
and open up for me I hope it will, I hope it will=20
Solo
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Salutations at last, I'm down on my knees
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I heard the bugle this morn blast Revilie
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
All my sails were ablaze, I was chained to the helm
Now I am overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed
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And I thought if I toed the right lines
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But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
And I thought If I told the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
Outro solo
**Thanks to David Kipp for help with a couple of the lyrics**
It=92s The Life
This figure is played throughout the entire song:
If the life you have created
Has buried you in luxuries outdated
And you ask: "What is the purpose?"
Too weak to claw your way up to the surface
You resent all of your trophies
They belittle human spirit like a time piece
That is ticking in your breast pocket
And so you long to reach in and stop it
Then your heart, it will be broken
And every sour word that you have spoken
About everybody else
Will return to act upon yourself
If the life you have created=20
Is founded on jealousy and hatred
It=92s too late to ask questions
For you=92re much too old to take any suggestions
It=92s the life you have created
It=92s the life you have created
It=92s the life
It is the life
It is the life
It is the life
Sing Along
Intro
The little lead riff over the D chord is:
E[----13--13--13--13--13--13----12--12--12--12--12--12-----]
B[----13--13--13--13--13--13----12--12--12--12--12--12-----]
Hallelujah, the wheel
A hound=92s life is for me
Everything but the kitchen sink
He built it just for me
Hallelujah, you=92re the fan
That lead me to the ???
I built you a river=20
But I=92m still not through with this ark
Man built a furnace
A Mercedez Benz
Man built the cities of Kansas and Berlin
Man slew the bisons
And he built a Thieves=92 Road
That pass over Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lead to the motherlode =20
Motherlode
Hallelujah, the wheel
A fool=92s life is for me
Steppin=92 off a parapet
Where they don=92t live in ????
Hallelujah, the girl
That wields it=92s path through the wall
I built you a hammer with a thick head and long claw
Man built an empire
Out of ocean and earth
Man built the prisons, the Joliets, San Quentin, Levenworth
And man built a market from Ohama to Rome
Evil Knievel and the legacy of John Wayne Gacey, Gacey
But I can sing along **Buggered if I can figure out the harmony part=20
here. 'Miracle...' perhaps? Aaaggh!!**
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But I can sing along, sing along=20
But I can sing along
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But I can sing along, sing along, sing along
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Man built a furnace
A Mercedez Benz
Man built the cities of Kansas and Berlin
Mighty Joe Moon
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Have you been to the Cumberland Gap, oh no
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Fix your eyes on the green of the map, oh no
Where the Appalachians rise, oh no, oh no
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Have you tasted the finest of trout, oh no
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Have you sleep in a log-burning house, oh no
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With your feet flopping over the couch oh no oh no
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But Mighty Joe Moon there is no controlling him
Drive off the bridge if you choose to swim
Mighty Joe Moon can't prevent what is heaven sent
Joe can't control where his money goes
He=92s Mighty Joe
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Have you been to the Cumberland Gap oh no
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The air is sweeter than oranges there oh no oh no
**Thanks to Jeff for a couple of the lyrics and the A chord.**
Demon Called Deception
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I=92m in tight with a demon called Deception
It=92s alright, he=92s a-treatin=92 me quite well
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I=92m in tight with a demon called Deception
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He=92s right beside me when I fell
To whisper words like, brother, nothin=92 here is any good
See the birds, they=92re a-dropping like a star wormwood
And all I wanted was a little patch of green
We were peasants, and the cotton was our king
And in the fields, how I sing a prisoner=92s song
Well, Deception whistles right along, right along
John, he sang for a pocket full of pills
When Deception was a-clicking his high-heels
We=92re in tight, playin=92 seven one night stands
And Deception made me as I am=20
As I am
As I am
As I am
As I am
Tight, and we=92re tight and we=92re tight, and we=92re...
Truth is low and tired
I barely saw the light
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And just as they came clean
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Something saved my skin, something saved my skin
Lady Godiva And Me
Intro
She rides un-cloaked through the streets of Coventry
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Upon a great cock horse, ahead of the ????
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I wore a minotaur=92s mask and I blame =91em on cow
I was the last to see her anyhow
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see
Lady Godiva and me
Peeping Tom watched the whole thing from the side lines
=91Til the Peeping Tom=92s peepin=92 had stricken poor Peeping Tom blind
Even those things that we know can be seen with two eyes
All those who look her over are surely to die
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see Lady Godiva and me
Heavier bit:
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Bullet all the things of your hardened youth
Harder than you wanted to be
Bury my bones in the stinking sands
=09
To save her for the world to see
I=92ve got the mean streak
I=92ve got the mean streak
Bridge
=09
The crook's in town
????????
Thing's he's saying I can't repeat
When you're walking down there, down there
No one=92s gonna lay eyes to see
Lady Godiva and me
Drag
Intro
=09
Shoot that cannonball into my wings
Shoot that cannonball into my wings
Into my wings
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You better tell me sweet things
Fold your pretty head into my ????
Fold your pretty head into my ????
Isn=92t it quaint?=20
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Isn=92t it queer?
You better drag me back here, here
Solo
Sing Van Morrison: "Would you kiss a-my eyes?"
Sing Van Morrison: "Would you kiss a-my eyes?"
Singing it low, singing it high
Would you kiss my eye? My eyes
Turn me on my ear=20
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When you drag me right back here, here
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You drag me back here, you drag me back here
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You drag me back, j-j-just drag me back here
Last Days of Tecumseh
In the last days of Tecumseh, there in the end
There were rumours of invasions and even talk of spacemen
But he couldn=92t believe all that he knew would fade
In the ground, below the airplanes, Tecumseh laid
Happiness
Intro
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Never mind me =91cause I=92ve been dead
Out of my body, been out of my head
Never mind the songs they hum
Don=92t wanna sing along with nothin=92 that I said
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
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It=92s hard to come by, I confess
I=92m better at this than happiness,=20
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If you find it, share it with the rest of us
Never mind the words that came=20
Out of my mouth when all I could feel was pain
The difference in the two of us
Comes down to the way you rise over things I just put down
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
It=92s hard to come by, I confess
I=92m better at this than, happiness
If you find it share it with the rest of us, the rest of us
Never mind me =91cause I=92ve been dead
Out of my body, been out of my head
Never mind the curse of war
Proud like a badge that just don=92t shine no more
Let him bring you happiness, happiness
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Hard to come by, I confess
I=92m better at this than happiness,=20
=09
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If you find it, share it with the rest of us
**Thanks to David Kipp for help with the chorus and the songs they=20
'hum'.**
Honey Don=92t Think
Intro & Verse riff:
It=92s the luck of the draw
How you wound up with me
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I don=92t know how at all
But I beg you to stay
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Crawl around on this earth
=09
Well, the world=92s too small
=09
Honey, don=92t think about it too long, now
Honey, don=92t think you=92ll ever want to figure me out
Something wrong with my stars
Could you look at my chart
And help me heal these scars?
Could you learn to read minds?
Or, in the case of mine=20
Could you read in the dark?
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Honey, don=92t think about it too long, now
Honey, don=92t think you=92ll ever want to figure me out
Don=92t want to figure me out
Don=92t wanna lose
Side By Side
Intro
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The fear of falling, a fear that I could
>From a place high above my stars, well, I would
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Be a liar to say "I=92m not scared anymore."
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With a fear of falling on down to the floor
To the floor
Release the have-nots and the haves to life
But tablescraps and lantern light
And on this spot
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At last tonight, side by side by side
The fear of losing this war is enough
But then I hold my head ????? in my gloves
And I wait for this stone age to slow to a stop
But I fear that we=92re nowhere near to a crawl, to a crawl
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I gotta tell you there=92s descension in the souplines for they don=92=
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have much to show
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But if you don=92t believe you=92re standing on a landmine
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You=92ll just have to wait =91til it blows, you=92ll just have =
to=20
wait =91til it blows, blows
To the floor
Unlisted instrumental
It=92s just: G and D
Rock of Ages
Intro
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Rock of ages, I am tumbling down
Where the roots of trees embrace you, I do fall
=09
Upon my knees and ask you how you can just sit there and be
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Rock of ages, I am crumbling now
In an avalanche, I=92m reaching for the rock of ages
Rock of ages
Solo
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Father, oh, I have stepped beyond my bounds
And the pack I wear, it weighs a thousand pounds
It drags me down, making anything crazy=20
Oh, now rock of ages
I have gone astray
I heard my brother call and I turned the other way
Now I=92m ashamed to face him
Oh, now rock of ages, rock of ages
Oh, now rock of ages, rock of ages
Reach for the rock of ages, rock of ages
In the avalanche, in the avalanche
Heavy rock, and I reach for the rock, I reach for the rock
In the avalanche that falls
Oh, I reach for the rock and I reach for the rock,=20
In the avalanche, in the avalanche
Heavy rock, heavy rock, such a heavy rock
- Kyle Smith