Eyolf Østrem

   A
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"

Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"

God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"

God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
    D7                                     A
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
     E7
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
A
God says, "Out on Highway 61."

Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said there's only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run

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A
           A
I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid

But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid
D                                                     A
She's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread

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Album version

Capo 2nd fret

(open E-string) - G

G
She's got everything she needs,
         C                      G      C/g G
She's an artist, she don't look back.
          C
She's got everything she needs,
                                G      C/g G
She's an artist, she don't look back.
                 A
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
    C                 G                C/g G
And paint the daytime black.

You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.

A

        A
Well, I wake up in the morning

There's frogs inside my socks

Your mama, she's a-hidin'

Inside the icebox
     D
Your daddy walks in wearin'
                               A
A Napoleon Bonaparte mask
         E
Then you ask why I don't live here
D                           A
Honey, do you have to ask?

Well, I go to pet your monkey
I get a face full of claws
I ask who's in the fireplace
And you tell me Santa Claus
The milkman comes in
He's wearing a derby hat
Then you ask why I don't live here
Honey, how come you have to ask me that?

G

   G                 Dm
Of war and peace the truth just twists
    F      C       G         C/g  G
Its curfew gull it glides
  G              Dm
Upon four-legged forest clouds
    F      C     G        C/g  G
The cowboy angel rides
         G      Bm'   Am     G
With his candle lit into the sun
           G     Bm'        C          D
Though its glow is waxed in black
G                Bm'       Am       G       C/g
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden

The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail

Version from Another Side

Capo 2nd fret (original key D major)

C       Am          Em
Crimson flames tied through my ears
        F        G *)   C
Rollin' high and mighty traps
C            Am      Em      C
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
      F     Em    G   *)
Using ideas as my maps
       F       Am     G *)        C
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Am                  F G
Proud 'neath heated brow
        C             Am    C
Ah, but I was so much older then
    F       G *)      C       G *)
I'm younger than that now.

C            Am    Em
Half-cracked prejudice leaped forth
     F        G *)     C