Return Of The Grievous Angel

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:50:39 GMT
From: Rick L 

 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Return Of The Grievous Angel Lucy Kaplanky Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky  Return of the Grievous Angel  written by Gram Parsons


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Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich

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And welcome me back to town

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Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour
         
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And I'll tell you how it all went down

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Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      
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And a good saloon in every single town
    
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And I remember something that you once told me
    
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And I'll be damned if it did not come true

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Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
    
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And they all lead me straight back home to you
        
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Cause I headed West to grow up with the country

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Across those prairies with those waves of grain
      
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And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
      
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And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee

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We flew straight across that river bridge,
           
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Last night half past two

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The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as we
             
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Went rolling through

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Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel

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And     I know just what I have to do

SOLO

        
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And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
            
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He wants to take my money for something that
                
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I've never been shown
      
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And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue see
       
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And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee

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The news I could bring I met up with the king
               
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On his head an amphetamine crown
                                
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He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt
    
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And headed out for some desert town

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Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      
 G                           
 C
And a good saloon in every single town
    
 C          
 D                       
 G
And I remember something that you once told me
    
 C                 
 D               
 G
And I'll be damned if it did not come true

 C               
 D            
 G     
 Bm    
 Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
    
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 D                     
 G
And they all lead me straight back home to you

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 D            
 G     
 Bm    
 Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
    
 C                
 D                     
 G
And they all lead me straight back home to you

 Wait And See Music (BMI) 1974
 From Lucy Kaplanksi  Flesh And Bone CD
 Red House Records 1996