Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Side Of Town (Guitar)

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He was the black sheep of the family

        C                F
How did mama's pride and joy

       C                F
Go from such a precious baby

       G
To the devil's poster boy

          C                  F
I'm gonna slick my hair like Elvis

        C                F
Roll my cuffs like Jerry Lee

       C                  F
If the backbeat's born in hell

                G
Then that's the place I want to be

              F         C
I'm gonna be a midnight rider

      F              C
Gonna burn my candle down

F              C
Following that driving beat

       Am           F     C  F  C  F
To the dark side of town

         C                F
From the barrooms of Deep Elam

     C                F
To a crash-pad on the Bay

   C                  F
He spiralled slow and steady down 

  G
A lonely blue highway

          C                  F
I'm gonna chase my beer with whiskey

        C            F
Stick a needle in my skin

          C             F
I'm gonna celebrate the mystery

       G
Of the hole I've fallen in

            F         C
'Cause I'm a midnight rider

      F              C
Gonna burn my candle down

F              C
Following that driving beat

       Am           F     C  F  C  F
To the dark side of town

   C                F
He loved that funky music

   C                  F
He knew the back road scenes

      C            F
Every barbeque and blues band

        G
Between here and New Orleans

C               F
He put down the bottle

  C            F
October Eighty-nine

C               F
Eased up on the throttle

G
Bought him a little time

            F         C           
But he was a midnight rider

   F                  C
He burned that candle down

F                   C
Hangin' out on easy-does-it street

       Am           F     C  F  C  F
On the dark side of town

C              F
Big Al settled down along

    C              F
The banks of Onion Creek

       C            F
With a pickup and a hound dog

     G
And a little lucky streak

   C                   F
He nursed that fragile frame

            C              F
Through the hurricanes and drought

         C                F
It was a summer wind that came in

    G
And blew the candle out

               F         C
'Cause he was a midnight rider

   F                  C
He burned that candle down

F              C
Following that driving beat

       Am           F    
To the dark side of town

                 C
Oh, you midnight rider

  F                  C
I know you're still around

F              C
Hangin' out on easy street

       Am           F     C  F  C  F
On the dark side of town