Deer Tick – The Great Smoke Off (Guitar)
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See the existing tab for the picking pattern. This one here is chords only
If you like it, put Capo on 2 and play C F G F C
[Intro]
D G A G D
[Verse 1]
D G In the laid back California town of sunny San Raphael A G D Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake you probably knew her well D G She'd been stoned fifteen of her eighteen years and the story was widely told A G D That she could smoke 'em faster than anyone could roll
[Verse 2]
D G Her legend finally reached New York that Grove Street walk-up flat A G D Where dwelt The Calistoga Kid a beatnik from the past D G With long browned lightnin' fingers he takes a cultured toke A G D And says "Hell I can roll 'em faster, Jim, than any chick can smoke"
[Verse 3]
D G So a note gets sent to San Raphael for the Championship of the World A G D The Kid demands a smoke off "Well bring him on! Says Pearl D G "I'll grind his fingers off his hands he'll roll until he drops" A G D Says Calistog "I'll smoke that chick till she blows up and pops"
[Verse 4]
D G So they rent out Yankee Stadium and the word is quickly spread A G D Come one come all who walk or crawl price just two lids a head D G So from every town and hamlet over land and sea they speed A G D The world's greatest dopers with the Worlds greatest weed
[Verse 5]
D G Hashishers from Morocco, hemp smokers from Peru A G D And the Shamnicks from Bagun who puff the deadly Pugaroo D A D And those who call it Light of Life and those that call it boo
[Interlude]
D G A G D
[Verse 6]
D G See the dealers and their ladies wearing turquoise lace and leather A G D See the narcos and the closet smokers puffin all together D G From the teenies who smoke legal to the ones who've done some time A G D To the old man who smoked reefer back before it was a crime
[Verse 7]
D G And the grand old house that Ruth built is filled with the smoke and cries A G D Of fifty thousand screaming heads all stoned out of their minds D G And they play the national anthem and the crowd lets out a roar A G D As the spotlight hits The Kid and Pearl ready for their smokin' war
[Verse 8]
D G At a table piled up high with grass as high as a mountain peak A G D Just tops and buds of the rarest flowers not one stem, branch or seed D G Maui Wowie Panama Red and Acapulco Gold A G D Kif from East Afghanistan and rare Alaskan Cold
[Verse 9]
D G Sticks from Thailand Ganja from the Islands and Bangkok's Bloomin' Best A G D And some of that wet imported shit that capsized off Key West D G Oaxacan tops and Kenya Bhang and Riviera Fleurs A G D And that rare Manhatten Silver that grows down in the New York sewers
[Verse 10]
D G And there's bubblin' ice cold lemonade and sweet grapes by the bunches A G D And there's Hersheys bars and Oreos incase anybody gets the munchies D G And the Calistoga Kid he sneers and Pearley she just grins A D And the drums roll low and the crowd yells go and the worlds first Smoke Off begins
[Interlude]
D G A G D
[Verse 11]
D G Kid flicks his magic fingers once and zap that first joints rolled A G D Pearl takes one drag with her mighty lungs and woosh that roach is cold D G Then The Kid he rolls his Super Bomb that'd paralyze a moose A G D And Pearly takes one super hit and slurp that bomb's defused
[Verse 12]
D G Then he rolls three in just ten seconds and she smokes 'em up in nine A G D And everybody sits back and says "this just might take some time" D G See the blur of flyin fingers see the red coal burnin bright A G D As the night turns into mornin and the mornin fades to night
[Verse 13]
D G And the autumn turns to summer and a whole damn year is gone A G D But the two still sit on that roach-filled stage smokin' and rollin' on D G With tremblin hands he rolls his jays with fingers blue and stiff A D She coughs and stares with bloodshot gaze and puffs through blistered lips
[Interlude]
D G A G D
[Verse 14]
D G And as she reaches out her hand for another stick of gold A G D The Kid he gasps "Goddamn it, bitch! There's nothin' left to roll!" D G "Nothin left to roll?!" screams Pearl, "Is this some twisted joke? A G D I didn't come here to fuck around man I come here to smoke"
[Verse 15]
D G And she reaches cross the table and grabs his bony sleeves A G D And she crumbles his body between her hands like dried and brittle leaves D G Flickin' out his teeth and bones like useless stems and seeds A G D And then she rolls him in a Zig Zag and lights him like a roach D A D And the fastest man with the fastest hands goes up in a puff of smoke
[Interlude]
D G A G D
[Verse 16]
D G In the laid-back California town of sunny San Raphael A G D Lives a girl named Pearly Sweetcake you probly know her well D G She's been stoned twenty-one of her twenty-four years and the storys widely told A G D How she still can smoke 'em faster than anyone can roll
[Verse 17]
D G While off in New York City on a street that has no name A G D There's the hands of the Calistoga Kid in the Viper Hall of Fame D G And underneath his fingers there's a little golden scroll A G D That says "Beware of Bein' the Roller When There's Nothin' Left to Roll"
[Outro]
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