Blitzen Trapper – Evening Star (Guitar)

           C/G           Gm                Dm                   G7
You're a broken-hearted party girl, your skirt's on fire, your hair's uncurled

      A#              F                       C             Gm
Your dancing days are at an end, yeah you've got no one to call your friend

C/G                       Gm            Dm                 G7
All you've got left is a silhouette, an empty bed, and a cheap Corvette

          A#                  F                            C                      Gm
You're a long way from your sweet sixteen, you need some stonewashed jeans and a time machine

    Dm                    G7
To take you back to that railroad track

           C                        F       A#
Where you first took flight in the morning light

    Dm                   G7
So take me back to that first romance

           C                        F       A#
Where you made your stand you were hand in hand

           Gm       Cm           D#            riff 1
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star

riff 1
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|--8----8-8-----------------------------------|
A|--8h10-8-8-10-8-5----------------------------|
E|------------------8-6--6--8b10br8-6-3-6-3-1--|

          C/G                       Gm                    Dm                            G7
When you came to the city in your cheap perfume and your ran through the room but you grew up soon

         A#                         F                   C                     Gm
Always dressed like a killer in the afternoon, sipping warm champagne from a silver spoon

        C/G                            Gm                    Dm                        G7
In the night you would travel in your lover's car with your jewels so bright, like a shooting star

          A#                         F                        C                               Gm
But your nightmares must have caught up with you and all the pills and the prophets couldn't get you through

    Dm                    G7
To take you back to that railroad track

           C                        F       A#
Where you first took flight in the morning light

    Dm                   G7
So take me back to that first romance

           C                        F       A#
Where you made your stand you were hand in hand

           Gm       Cm           D#            riff 2
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star

riff 2
e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|--8----8-8-----------|
A|--8h10-8-8-10-8-5----|
E|------------------8--|

    Dm            G7
So take me back

C   F   A#   Gm   Cm   D#   riff 1
Ooooooooooh

          C/G                      Gm                Dm                       G7
You were found on the ground in a lonely town at the end of the world, in a dressing gown

      A#                      F                           C                     Gm
Your hair was on fire, your shoes were misplaced on your face was a trace of a distant place

        C/G              Gm                 Dm                              G7
It's a long way home to Wichita where they put you back together fill your head with straw

    A#                        F                 C                            Gm
Now all you've got left is a silhouette and a cheap Corvette, but girl, you ain't dead yet

    Dm                    G7
To take you back to that railroad track

           C                        F       A#
Where you first took flight in the morning light

    Dm                   G7
So take me back to that first romance

           C                        F       A#
Where you made your stand you were hand in hand

           Gm       Cm           D#           A#
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star

           Gm       Cm           D#           A#
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star

  Gm       Cm            D#            riff 1   Cm   A#   C
Black-eyed angel of the evening star