Grateful Dead – When I Paint My Masterpiece (Guitar)

                   G   C  G
Oh, the streets of Rome

                   G   C   G
Are filled with rubble

            D            G   C  G
Ancient footprints are everywhere

  G                                C     G
You can almost think that you're seeing double

     D                               G      C     G
On a cold dark night on the Spanish stairs

D                                 G    C  G
Got to hurry on back to my hotel room

         D                                G   C  G
Where I got me a date with Botticelli's niece

     G                                         C  G
Yeah, she promised that she'd be there with me

       D                  G  C G
When I paint my masterpiece

G                    C G                 C G
All the hours I spent inside the coliseum

D                              G   C G
Dodging lions and wasting time

G                                                                  C G
Oh, these mighty kings of the jungle I can hardly stand to see 'em

D                                       G  C G
Yes, it sure has been a long hard climb

D                                            G    C G
Train wheels rolling through the back of my memory

D                                              G        C G
When I stood on a hilltop following a pack of wild geese

G                                  G      C G
Someday life will be sweet like a rhapsody

G      D              G    C G
When I paint my masterpiece

Cm                                         G
Sailin' around the world in a dirty gondola

Cm                                 D    G
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca Cola!

A         A D A                 A       A D A
I left Rome       and landed in Brussels

       E                               A D A
On a flight so bumpy that I almost cried

A                              D             A       A D A
Preacher men in uniform and young girls pulling mussels

E                                       A D A
Well, it sure has been a long hard ride

E                       A D A
Newspaper man eating candy

E                          A     D A  A
Had to be held down by big police

A                    D         A
Someday everything's gonna be different

       E              A
When I paint my masterpiece

A                        D        A
And someday everything's gonna be different

E                  A          D A  A D A
When I paint my masterpiece

A                             D        A
Someday everything's gonna be different

E                  A          D A  A D A
When I paint my masterpiece

E                  A          D A  A D A
When I paint my masterpiece