The Wasp Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

EmI want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat.

It comes out of the Virginia swamps,

cool and slow with rugged precision,

with a backbeat narrow and hard to master.

EmSome call it heavenly in its brilliance,

others, mean and rueful of the Western dream.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.

We have constructed pyramids in honour of our escaping.

This is the land where the Pharaoh died.

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EmThe negroes in the forest, brightly feathered, and they are saying:

"Forget the night! Live with us in forests of azure,

out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.

Out here we is stoned immaculate."

 LisEten to this F♯I'll tellE you about theF♯ heartaches; G

 I'll tEell you aboutF♯ heartaEche and the losF♯s of God. A A♯ B

 I'll Etell you aboutF♯ the hopelesEs night, F♯

 the meagerC♯ food my Asoul forgot, C♯ A

F♯tell you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soulG♯. G F♯ E Em

EmI want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat,

soft driven, slow and mad like some new language.

 LisEten to this F♯I'll tellE you about TexF♯as; G

 I'll tEell you aboutF♯ TexasE RF♯a - Adi - A♯o. B

 I'll Etell you aboutF♯ the hopelesEs night, F♯

 the wanderC♯in' thAe Western dreaC♯m, A

F♯tell you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soulG♯ G F♯ E Em