John Prine – Six Oclock News (Guitar)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Dave S. Email: [email protected] Tuning: Standard Artist: John Prine Album: John Prine Year: 1971
G           Em  C                  G
Wanda had a baby in nineteen fifty one.

G                Em             C                D
The father was a stranger and a stranger was the son.

C                     D     C                   D
Call that child james lewis, call these rooms a home.

G                 C      D                G
Changing all them diapers polish all that chrome.

C          D                     G   
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me

G              Em        C                G          
All around the schoolyard playing all the games

G                 Em            C                       D
Running, laughing back and forth the kid with two first names

C               D      C         D   
Stranger in the closet, lock the diary

G                   C     D             G
The past is running faster singing harmony

C          D                     G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me

G              Em     C                     G
God bless this kitchen said the knick-knack shelf

G                  Em   C                D
The dinners almost ready go and wash yourself

C              D     C                   D
Jimmys growing up now and wandas growing old

G                  C      D                        G
The time is growin shorter the nights are long and cold

C          D                     G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me

G               Em    C                   G
Sneaking in the closet and through the diary

G                  Em        C                     D
Now, dont you know all he saw was all there was to see

C                  D    C                  D
The whole town saw jimmy on the six oclock news

G                      C       D                     G
His brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes

C          D                     G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me

C          D                     G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me