Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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Dsus4
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Early
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one morning when the sun was shining,
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I was laying in bed,
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wondering if she'd change at all
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if her hair was still red.
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Her folks said our lives together
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sure was going to be rough.
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They never did like mama's
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Papa's babe wasn't big enough
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I was standing at the side of my road
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Rain falling into my shoes
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Heading out for the east coast
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Lord knows I paid some dues
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Gsus4
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Tangled up in blue
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She was married when we first met,
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soon to be divorced
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After a pajama kiss,
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but it was a little too much for her
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We drove that car as far as we could,
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abandoned it out west
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Spilled it up on the dark sat night,
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both a grin, it was best
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She turned around to look at me
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I heard her say over her shoulder,
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We'll meet again someday honey,
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I'm sure
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Gsus4
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Tangled up in blue
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I had a job in the Greek north woods
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Working as a cook for a spell
Never did like it all that much
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One day the axe just fell,
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I drifted down into Orleans
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Waiting to implode,
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working on a fishing boat
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outside a jelly crew
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All the while I was alone,
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the past was close behind
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I've seen a lot of women,
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but they never escaped my mind
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Dsus4
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And I just grew
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She was workin' in a topless place
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I stopped in for a beer
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I lookin' at the side of her face
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In the spotlight so clear
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Later on, as her crown thinned out
I was about to do the same
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She was standin' there in
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Mother, God, don't I know your name?
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I, I muttered something under
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She studied the lines on my face.
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I must admit I felt a little uneasy
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to tie the laces of my shoes.
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Dsus4
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Table top and blue.
Dsus4
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She lit a burner on the stove,
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offered me a pipe.
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I thought you'd never say hello,
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she said, you look like the Simon type.
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And she opened up a book of poems,
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handed it to me.
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Written by an Italian poet
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Every one of those words rang true
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and glowed like burning coal.
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Pouring out of every page
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like it was written in my
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soul for me to use.
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I lived with them on Montague Street
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in a basement down the stairs,
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there's mu sic in the cafes at night,
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then he started dealing with slaves
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and something inside of him died,
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she had to sell everything she owned
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I knew when the bombs blew out,
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The only thing I knew how to do,
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was to keep on keepin' on
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Like a bird that flew
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Dsus4
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Tear it all up and blow
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So now I'm going back again,
gotta get to her somehow
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All the people we used to know,
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they're an illusion to me now
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Some are mathematicians,
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some are carpenters' wives
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Don't know how it all got started,
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don't know what they're
doing with their lives
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But me, I'm still on the road,
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headed for another joint
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We always did the insane,
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you saw it from a different point of view
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Dang all the gamblers
Outro 1
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Bm
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