WALKDOWN: 3/4 3/2 3/1 4/4
E
C#
I’m gravel and stone
A
B
I’m weeds and rattlesnakes
C
C#
I’m bottles and bones
A
B
I’m a long, flat interstate
E
C#
I’m brambles and thorns
A
B
I’m wild blackberry vines
E
C#
I’m traveled and worn
A
B
I’m sundown all the time
F#m
G#m
I’m wandering barefoot down her tar and gravel eroscape
A
B
I’m much obliged, stranger, much obliged
F#m
G#m
I lost my bearings in her maze of veils and tattered drapes
A
B
I’m evening as the crow flies
A
B
I’ll always be the new guy
G#
C#m F#m
I’ll always be the last of the fools in line
G#m
I’m evening as the crow flies
A
B
F#m
I’m twilight as the last of the scarecrows cry
G#m
A B
“Outsider, nobody home”
E
C#
I’m August at noon
A
B
I’m miles of railroad
E
C#
I’m a sucker for June
A
B
I’m a long, long time ago
F#m
G#m
I’m stranded on a Ferris wheel of yearning I don’t understand
A
B
Help me down, stranger, lend a hand
F#m
G#m
I’m locked in battle with the unrelenting shadow
A
B
Of her once upon a fine man
A
B
I’ll always be the new guy
G#
C#m F#m
I’ll always be the last of the fools in line
G#m
I’m evening as the crow flies
A
B
F#m
I’m twilight as the last of the scarecrows cry
G#m
A B
E
“Outsider, you’re on your own”
Intro: 4/4/ 4/4 4/2 4/0 n4/2 4/2 4/2 4/0 3/2 4/0
riff: 4/2 h4/2 p4/2 4/0
riff
G
caught a little sun
riff
Em
feel a little lazy
riff
G
had a little fun
riff
D D7
drank a little wine
riff
G G7
made a little love
riff
C C7
got a lot of nothing on my mind
G
D
G
it’s a good night to lay around here killing time
G
I made peace with the dark
Em
I’m over the nightmares
G
D D7
I’ve got a strong heart and clean desires
G
G G7
I’m turning out alright
C
C C7
it’s been a sweet life so far
G
D
G G7
it’s a good night to kill a little time in your arms
G C
D G
I get a frail hollow longing in my dreams still
Em
G
D D7
and a far off sense of loss when I first wake
G
G7
but, I’m turning out alright
C
C7
ain’t it a sweet life these days
G
D
G
it’s a good night to kill a little time on the fire
escape
C
D
I nearly let the lust destroy me
C
D
If not for you I’d have surely drowned
Em
Bm
but I’ve seen hunger most will never comprehend
C
D
plant friends and lovers one by one in the stony ground
G
There’s a gathering storm
Em
I hear a little thunder
G
I feel a little wind
D D7
I smell a little rain
G G7
but I can deal with the angels
C C7
cause it ain’t me they’re here to claim
G
D
G
it’s a good night for blowing ‘em off til some other day
G
C
D G
I get a frail hollow longing in my dreams still
Em
G
D D7
and a far off sense of loss when I first wake
G
G7
but, I’m turning out alright
C
C7
ain’t it a sweet life these days
G
D
If you think you can stand holding my hand on the
G
fire escape
G
D
I’m a good man who’s done a couple of bad things
G
along with way
G
Where have all the Dead Heads gone?
Am
Shake your chains and rattle them bones
Am
Bm
Cast aside thy satellite phones
C
G
It's time for Casey Jones to rise
G
I don't know where my manhood ends
Am
Or where my manicured yard and my sports car begins
Am
Bm
Or whether ravenous greed is a deadlier sin
C
G
Than a shiftless and idle life
CHORUS:
Am
D
A stone's throw closer to home
Bm
Em
We can ride around with the radio on
Am
Bm
Now we can stay and be slaves to our beepers and phones
C
G
Or we can roll down the windows and drive
G
I don't know what to wear anymore
Am
I've tried the gigantic jeans with the polka dot drawers
Am
Bm
It's kind of hard not to look like a dirty old dork
C
G
Done up in satin and platform shoes
G
I wouldn't mind being debonair
Am
I wouldn't mind showing off a little gray in my hair
Am
Bm
I wouldn't mind making younger women stumble and stare
C
G
But I can't bear to wear a tie and suit
CHORUS
G
Modern love is driving me mad
Am
I've tried a kindergarten marm and a charm school grad
Am
Bm
I've tried a mopey little doped up deb gone bad
C
G
I've had the queen of the damned and survived
G
All I need is a long slow ride
Am
With a bow legged cowgirl strapped on behind
Am
Bm
Dust off your jeans and shine up your hides
C
G
And slide your boots in my stirrups and grind
CHORUS
CHORUS
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h3/2
Am
I'm having a breakthrough day
F
G
I'm making up cool things to say
C
Am
F
G
Like "Does it matter if my former is her latter coming at her or going
away?"
C
Am
I'm up at the crack of noon
F
G
I'm hatching my breakaway move
C
Am
F
G
I'm still scratching all the usual fleas and keeping track of who's
where
and with who
CHORUS:
C
E
I'm still peeing on the usual trees
F
C
And blowing in the usual breeze
Dm
G
If she needs me, it's easy to find me
C
E
I'm still pirating the usual seas
F
C
Conspiring with the usual thieves
Am
F
G
You can tell her if she ever wants to see me I'll be peeing on the
usual
trees
C
Am
I'm playing the usual field
F
G
On the verge of a breakthrough deal
Am
F
G
I'm still dreaming up the usual schemes and greasing up all the usual
wheels
C
Am
I'm the usual idea man
F G
I'm hatching a sack full of plans
C
F
They're all super secret matters that could jack me up the ladder in
the
G
right pair of hands
CHORUS
Am
I'm not a loser
Dm
G
I'm not such a loser anymore
Am
I'm not a loser
Dm
G C
But my backside's still just a little bit sore
Am
I'm making the usual scene
F
G
Being free's agreeing with me
C
Am
F
It sounds silly but, no really, all these pretty little fillies won't
let
G
my willy be
Am
I'm stomping the usual grounds
F
G
With a whole new attitude now
C
Am
F
G
I'm still waking and baking and making all of the usual man-about-town
rounds
CHORUS
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