Misc Unsigned Bands – Jack Conte - Long Long Time Ago (Guitar)

    Am
He lived down by the farmhouse

           G
where the stray cats sleep at night,

        F
just a deck of cards,

       E
and the ghost of his wife

        Am
and the devil lived in his doorway,

      G
kept out the love and hope.

            F                       E
He lived a long, long, long time,

    Am
He lost one yellow sunday,

         G
when he reached into his throat

     F
and pulled out all the people

            E 
that he had been

      Am
but together they overwhelmed him,

        G
and he couldn't help but explode.

           F                       E
He lost a long, long, long time, 

Dm
Asked a man in town,

                    Am
and they said he's lawless.

             E                       Am
Said he was strange, and he was all alone.

            G
No place to go,

               F          E
he went up in smoke.

     Am
Well he left in a hurry

           G
when the cops kicked in his door.

           F
He jumped out the second story,

                 E
limped down the road

              Am
He stuck his head out the broken window,

         G
and he howled like the devil's own.

           F                        E
He left a long, long, long time,

    Am
He flew right past the border,

                G
he ditched the car and dyed his hair.

    F                 
he took out his deck of cards

                   E
for a couple last rounds

        Am
and he slept just like a baby,

            G
though the night was hard and cold.

           F                        E
He flew a long, long, long time,

          Am
When he passed through the devil's doorway,

         G
well he knew just where he was.

          F
He threw back his head and howled

          E
as he resigned himself to dust

          Am
and they found him in the rio fuerte,

     G
His body was still afloat.

             F                       E
He passed a long, long, long time,