John Prine – Crazy As A Loon (Guitar Tab)

Capo 2
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
     Back before I was a movie star             Straight of off the farm
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     I had a picture of another man's wife      Tattooed on my arm
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[Verse 2]
     With a pack of camel cigarettes            In the sleeve of my t-shirt
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     I'm heading down to hollywood              Just to have my feelings hurt
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[Chorus]
     That town will make you crazy               Just give it a little time
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     You'll be walking 'round in circles        Down at Hollywood and Vine
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     You'll be waiting on a phone call           At the wrong end of a broom
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     Yes that town'll make you crazy           Crazy as a loon
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[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
     So, I headed down to Nashville              To become a country star
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     Every night you'd find me hangin'          At every honky-tonkin' bar
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[Verse 4]
     Pretty soon I met a woman                   Pretty soon she done me wrong
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     Pretty soon my life got sadder            Than any country song
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[Chorus]
     That town will make you crazy              Just give it a little time
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     You'll be walking 'round in circles        Lookin' for that country rhyme
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     You'll be waitin' on a phone call           At the wrong end of a broom
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     Yeah, that town'll make you crazy          Crazy as a loon
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[Verse 6]
     So, I gathered up my savvy                  Bought myself a business suit
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     I headed up to New York City               Where a man can make some loot
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[Verse 7]
     I got hired Monday morning                  Downsized that afternoon
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     Overcome with grief that evening          Now I'm crazy as a loon
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[Verse 8]
    So I'm up here in the North Woods            Just staring at a lake
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     Wondering just exactly how much            They think a man can take
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[Verse 9]
    I eat fish to pass the time away             'Neath this blue Canadian moon
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     This old world has made me crazy           Crazy as a loon
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[Verse 10]
     Lord, this world will make you crazy
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     Crazy                       as a loon
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