Rodney Crowell – Telephone Road (Guitar)

B                                     E
Rain came down in endless sheets of thunder

B                                         E
Lightening bolts split pine trees down to the roots

              G#m
In the  shadow of the astrodome

            E
With a hurricane coming on strong

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We used to hit the streets and go swimming in our birthday suits

B                               E
Skiing in a bar ditch behind a moped

B                                      E
Thirteen stitches on the corner of a sardine can

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We were dirt poor Houston kids our whole family living on the skids

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But we always had a nickel for the coming of the ice cream man

B
Mosquito truck blowing out DDT

G#m
Barefoot heathens running wild and free

E
Air raid buzzer at a noonday scream

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Living in a dream on telephone  road       Guitar Riff

B                                                       E
I used to love them cherry cokes down at the princess drive-in

B                                                E
The cheeseburgers taste so good I like to come untied

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There’s a chinaberry tree I remember I used to climb in and out my window

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The night I left was on the day before my grandma died

B
Sawdust spread out on a Dance Hall floor

G#m
Juke box ripping at an all out roar

E
Barmaid smiling at a ten cent tip

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Living is a  trip on telephone road

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Magnolia garden bandstand on the very front  row

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Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and the killer putting on a show

C#m                                      E
Six years old and barely off my daddys knees

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When those rockabilly rebels sent the devil running right through me

B
Drive in movie in the trunk of my car

G#m
One eyed sailor in an ice house bar

E
Split shine Charlie and ol’ peg leg bill

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Are dressed up fit to   kill on telephone  road

G#m        B
Telephone road

E
Telephone road

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Barbeque and beer on ice

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A salty watermelon slice

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At the Little Taste of  Paradise

              E
On telephone road

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Telephone road