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Donald And Lydia
John Prine
Strum: B D D U
w/swing feel
1 + 2 + 3 +
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Chord
Guide |
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32 1 C: x32010 |
134211 F: 133211 |
213 D7: xx0212 |
3
1 G7: 3x0001 |
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3241 C7: x32310 |
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C (2) F C (3)
Small town bright lights Saturday night,
D7 G7 (2)
Pin balls and pool halls flashing their lights
C (2) F C (3)
Making change behind a counter in a penny arcade,
G7 C (4)
Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray
(spoken) Lydia
C (2) F C (3)
Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat,
D7 G7 (2)
behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat
C (2)
F C (3)
She read a romance magazine up in her room
G7 C G7
And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon
Chorus:
F (2) C (2) G7 (2) C C7
But dreaming just comes natural like the first breath from a baby
F (2) C (2) G7 (2) C (4)
Like sunshine feeding daisies, Like the love hidden deep in your heart
C (2) F C (3)
Bunk beds, shaved heads Saturday night
D7 G7 (2)
A warehouse of strangers with sixty-watt lights
C (2) F C (3)
Staring though the ceiling just wanting to be,
G7 C (4)
lay a one of too many a young PFC
(spoken) Donald
C (2) F C (3)
There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said
D7 G7 (2)
Strangers had forced him to live in his head
C (2) F C (3)
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes after
G7 C G7
midnight in the stillness of the barrack's latrine
Chorus
C (2) F C (3)
Hot love, cold love, no love at all,
D7 G7 (2)
a portrait of guilt is hung on the wall
C (2) F C (3)
Nothing is wrong, nothing is right,
G7 C (4)
Donald and Lydia made love that night
(spoken) Love
C (2) F C (3)
They made love in the mountains, they made love in the streams
D7 G7 (2)
They made love in the valleys, they made love in their dreams
C (2)
F C (3)
But when they were finished, there was nothing to say
G7 C G7
'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away
Chorus (hold last C chord)
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
