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Tonight at the Arizona; Lyrics/Tabs
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1. Roll On Arte

Capo on 5th fret for the version off Arizona and Through the Reins

Chords are the same for each verse and chorus...

Oh the turbines pound, your plane touches down, the captain catches your eye.
Dm C G F G F
And all the city crows perched high in rows on wires watch you walk by.
Dm C G F G F
Your mouth has changed, your room's rearranged, someone's been sleeping inside.
Dm C G F G F
And the curtain's closed on all your windows, to block out the fried chicken sign.
Dm C G F G F


Roll on, Arte roll on. Your heart's too good for this town.
C G F G F
Your eyes cast through the glass at my so sorry mannequin frown.
C G F G F


The porter sings as he begins to clean up the mess that we've made.
The Christmas trees are cast on the street and garbage trucks block Hooper Lane.
My head's in pain but I can't complain cause my sweetheart waits down the line
and in a while we'll be in a house by the sea, even if just in my mind.


Roll on, Arte roll on. Your heart's too good for this town.
Your eyes cast through the glass at my starry American frown.
My mouth ain't fed, my lips ain't cherry red and my grin might show my bad teeth.
And all the people I pass, they give me a glance, as if I'm some low class thief.

But to you I'm fine, and I'm in your mind even if I'm not around.
And my arms are strong and that's where you belong, given the love that we've found.
Roll on, Arte roll on. Your heart's too good for this town.
Your eyes cast through the glass at your so sorry Marilyn frown.

2. Ballad of Lou the Welterweight
For the little riff thing, just strum semi-specifically at the A, D, G strings in the
G chord and the D, G, B strings of the C. Hitting the strings surrounding each
“main” note is okay, and results in the fullish sound heard on the record.
Here's a tab of it, sort of

G------------------------4-|
D---------------------5----|(5)
A------------------5-(5)---|
E-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-(3)------|

and

B--------5-|
G-----5----|(5)
D--5-(5)---|
A-(3)------|

For the rest of the fingering, it's mostly just playing around. There's never any fancy
deviating from the chords

Intro:
G (barre) C (barre)
Am Em
G

Verse:
C G
I put this shovel down
Am Em
Hire me on better ground
I can’t afford no gas
I walk to work on the overpass

My teenage daughter’s knocked up
Oh, Janey, this time, you really fucked up
You ought to be in the hospital,
But I can’t afford to go the bill

Chorus:
Am Em
Hey hey, revolver
G F C
Don’t lead me on
Am Em G F C
Your shiny barrel’s long and narrow
Am Em
Hey hey, revolver
G

I put this shovel down,
I walk the line into Hudson town
The blue Burger King billboard signs
Remind me of her mother’s eyes

She ran off to be a movie star
I hope she found what she was looking for
I promised Janey we’d see L.A.
If I ever made some cash some day

Chorus
G a few times
End on C

3. Hey Hey Revolver

C Em
I put this shovel down,
Am F
hire me on better grounds.
C Em
I can't afford no gas,
G
I walk to work on the overpass.
C Em
My teenage daughter's knocked up,
Am F
Janey this time you really fucked up.
C Em
You ought to be in the hospital,
G
but I can't afford to go the bill.


Am Em
Hey hey, revolver,
C F G
don't lead me on.
Am G
Your shiny barrel
F C
is long and narrow.
Am Em
Hey hey, revolver



4. Your Belly In My Arms


C G Am F
We`d watch the shapes the the rain would make
C G Am F
falling down the window of our bus.
C G Am F
I said they reminded me of paper ponies blowing free.
C G Am F
You said they reminded you of us.

Ref.
C G Am F G F C
Your belly in my arms. Tomorrow we`ll be through these reins an gone.


C G Am F
Woke up with the driver crying Birmingham.
C G Am F
Looked trough the glass and found the morning sky.
C G Am F
I said that cloud`s shaped like a burning man,
C G Am F
you didn`t have the heart to tell me why.

Ref.
C G Am F G F C
Your belly in my arms. Tomorrow we`ll be through these clouds an gone.


C G Am F
I put my hand inside your skirt
C G Am F
and asked if you thought that our baby`s life would turn out this way.
C G Am F
You said you wasn`t really sure.
C D Am F
But really you was too good to say it.

Ref.
C G Am F G F C
Your belly in my arms. Tomorrow we`ll be through these gates an gone.




5. Lady Day

capo 5th fret

C C/G Am G
even if I'm sick in bed
with a towel around my head
even if I'm feeling blue
and crying is all I do

F C G
i know she'll be there beside of me

Dm G Dm C F G C
lady day, please wont you stay, my lady day

C C/G Am G x2 between each verse

Even if the sea does rise and there's waves up to the skies
and the evening bells wont ring no matter how you pull the thing
I know she'll find some way to soothe my mind
lady day, please wont you stay, my lady day

even if the night bird sings some foul and tempered thing
and it wakes me from a dream of booze and nicotine
i know she'll be there beside of me
lady day, please wont you stay, my lady day

even if the world turns white and the night turns into night
and there's rebels on the beach exchanging weapons each to each
i know she'll find some way to soothe my mind
lady day, please won't you stay, my lady day

even if i get sick as hell and i never do get well
and at last my heart does fail and to some golden city sail
i won't much care to love no angel there
lady day, please wont you stay, my lady day

6. T For Texas

7. Rockefeller Druglaw Blues


The E exhaust from the B prison van is going to A heaven, but I'm going to C#m7 Attica
Gonna put a hundred miles between me and my dealing habit.
I'm watching Poughkeepsie move by in the afternoon rain.
My hands are turning blue from these cuffs they got me in.

I tried to keep my job at the dollar store. Found out my mom was sick and a dollar wasn't good enough no more. I promise you Mama, I'm gonna get you them pills, I got me a box of bags and a baker's scale.

C#m Fifteen grams of A heroin,
C#m7 an ounce of B speed,
C#m fifteen A years to E life.
Rocke -A- feller,
Rocke -C#m7- feller
Rocke -A- feller, B
that's a long old E time.

My brother was shot down on Warren Street a year ago tonight.
Can't you see the medics with his body in the siren light.
I promise you brother, I'm gonna be a good dad,
gonna give our children something like we never had.

Fifteen grams of heroin
an ounce of speed,
fifteen years to life.
Rockefeller,
that's a long old time.

Twenty boys in orange clothes in the jailhouse yard.
Twenty needle-marks in the arms of God.
Five hundred picketers this morning on the governor's lawn.
Fifty white stars, my Darling, in the milky dawn.

Fifteen grams of heroin,
an ounce of speed,
fifteen years to life.
Rockefeller,
that's a long old time.


8. Mercy

9. Christmas Song


Quick and dirty - sounds like the top E string is missing or not played but I didn't look at any Youtube footage to double check

Well a D cold wind did come up
A and blew my hat off
G I could not catch up
I A guess I'm just a sad dove.

D Oh oh I'm A starting to find
that Bm I was not made for these G ti-i-i-A-imes. Repeat

So it made it's way westward
and fell in some river
I saw me a horse there
he looked familiar when
he started running
like a straight away demon
I used to run like that
you should've seen me, and

Oh oh I'm starting to find
I was not made for these times.

a girl's drowning in the water
so I pulled her to shore
I breathed her breath back, she's sayin'
I seen you before?
I said you might've seen me
chasing my hat
if'n you see it
you can have it

Oh oh I'm starting to find
I was not made for these times


10. Going Going Gone

capo on 4

The intro revolves around the open 'D' string (capo'd so it's a F#)
so you hit the 'D' string open as the first note of each chord, and bring your middle finger down to form the 'C' chord if that makes sense

C there's a home up F in the sky
C I'm a- climb to it F by and by
C I'm a follow these F yellow lines
C 'til they turn into G golden vines
F Going G Going C Gone F
F Going G Going C Gone F

I remember your eyes were soft
in the doorway as you saw me off
you say we're young and I'll admit
but we ain't that innocent
Going Going Gone
Going Going Gone

black cloud falling on a field
throwing rain on my windshield
but it don't matter 'cause i left behind
the type of vision that rain can blind
Going Going Gone
Going Going Gone
Going Going Gone
Going Going Gone

can't keep no steady job
with an unsteady mind, My God!
so I'll walk these yellow lines
'til they turn into Golden Vines

11. Take This Hammer (Live)
12. Got What I Need


D Drink some colored drink
fall in love and run
lost my G shoes I think
so my D runnings done
y'say the A world I see
will get the G best of me
but I Bm got A what I G need

Had a girl one time
but she upped and left me
sometimes I wonder why
guess she didn't like me
y'say the world of love
will get the best of us
but I got what I need


Against an old oak tree
A river by my side
Ain't got no money
Sleep in my car at night
but I don't mind
no it don't bother me
cause I got what I need

13. Nowhere New York
13. The Country is Gone





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