Joan Baez – The 33Rd Of August (Guitar)

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As recorded by Joan Baez (From the 1971 Album BLESSED ARE...) [Intro] G [Verse 1]
                                  C
Lord today, there's no salvation, the band's packed up and gone

D                                 G
Left me standing with my penny in my hand

                                             C
There's a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his song

    D                               G
But he can see what they can't understand
[Chorus]
        C                                               G
Its the thirty-third of August and I'm finally touching down

Am                             D          G
Eight days from Sunday leaves me Saturday bound
[Verse 2]
G                                     C                 D
Once I stumbled through the darkness, tumbled to my knees

                               G
A thousand voices screaming in my brain

                               C
Woke up in a squad car, busted down for vagrancy

D                                   G
Outside my cell as sure as hell, it looked like rain
[Chorus]
        C                                               G
Its the thirty-third of August and I'm finally touching down

Am                             D          G
Eight days from Sunday leaves me Saturday bound
[Verse 3]
G                                      C
But now I've got my dangerous feelings under lock and chain

D                               G
Killed my violent nature with a smile

                                                 C
Though the demons danced and sang their song within my fevered brain

D                                          G
Not all my God-like thoughts, Lord, were defiled
[Chorus]
        C                                               G
Its the thirty-third of August and I'm finally touching down

Am                             D          G
Eight days from Sunday leaves me Saturday bound