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Tough Mama

D     Bm
  Tough Mama
A
  Meat shakin' on your bones
D     Bm
  I'm gonna
A
  go down to the river and get some stones.
Bm                                A
Sister's on the highway with that steel-drivin' crew,
Bm                           F#m     Em       G
Papa's in the big house, his workin' days are through.
C     G
Tough Mama
A
Can I blow a little smoke on you?

Dark Beauty
Won't you move it on over and make some room?
It's my duty
to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom.
Ashes in the furnace, dust on the rise,

Tin Angel

It was late last night when the boss came home
To a deserted mansion and a desolate throne.
Servant said "Boss, the lady's gone.
She left this morning just before dawn."
"You got something to tell me, tell it to me, man.
Come to the point as straight as you can."
"Old Henry Lee, chief of the clan
Came riding through the woods and took her by the hand."        
The boss he lay back flat on his bed.
He cursed the heat and he clutched his head.
He pondered the future of his fate –

I and I

Album version

Am                   C                                G
Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed.
D                        Am
 Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams.
Am          C                                G
 In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed
D                                         Am
To some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

Under the Red Sky

E                      A/e E                             A/e E
There was a little boy       and there was a little girl
                     A     D/a  A                E       A/e E
And they lived in an alley        under the red sky.
      C#m                        G#m
There was a little boy and there was a little girl
         F#m7              B11           E
And they lived in an alley under the red sky.

There was an old man and he lived in the moon,
One summer's day he came passing by.
There was an old man and he lived in the moon,
And one day he came passing by.

Roll On John

G                                  C
Doctor, doctor tell me the time of day!
                                      G
Another bottle's empty, another penny spent.
   G                                  C
He turned around and he slowly walked away.
     C                                G
They shot him in the back and down he went.
        
           C
Shine your light
       D
Movin' on
              C
You burned so bright
         G
Roll on, John
        
From the Liverpool docks to the red-light Hamburg streets,

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

           F
Close your eyes, close the door,
                  G
You don't have to worry any more.
Bb         C        F
I'll be your baby tonight.

Shut the light, shut the shade,
You don't have to be afraid.
I'll be your baby tonight.
           Bb
Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away,
F
We're gonna forget it.
     G
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon,
    C
But we're gonna let it,
[n.c.]
You won't regret it.

Tombstone Blues

Album Version

    D           /c             G/b        D
The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course
    D            /c             G/b  D
The city fathers they're trying to endorse
    D      /c        G(b           D
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
        D/c         G/b        D
But the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits
To Jezebel the nun she violently knits
A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits
At the head of the chamber of commerce
G

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