Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Mary, this station is playing every sad song

I remember like we were alive

I heard and sung them all from inside of these walls

In a prison cell, where we spent those nights

And they burned up the diner where I always used to find her

Licking young boys blood from her claws

And I learned about the blues from this kitten I knew

Her hair was raven and her heart was like a tomb

Prechorus

Guitar 1

My heart's like a wound

Have you seen my hands?

 Just look at 'em shake

 And the song just keeps on repeating

 Drop the needle again

 And I dance with your ghost

 but that ain't the way

I can't move on and I can't stay the same

And all my friends say

Chorus

Heeeeyyyy

Turn the record over

Heeeyyyyy

 I'll see you on the flip side

There you go and turn the key and engine over

Let her go

 Let somebody else lay at her feet

Slow it down here

On President Street, you'll find the sisters praying over my city's heart

While Union Avenue turns to its disciple who feels the pressure heat coming on hard

Chorus

And if all was well and your heart could find the words

Would we be for better baby, would we be for worse?

And if there was a way to navigate your seas

And if tonight, my true love...

Faster here

I was crawling around in my head in the haze of a trance.

 Rico said, "I'ma turn you onto a sound, cool out your head.

 This is the sound from Camden town."

And then I heard it like a shot through my skull to my brain,

 I felt my fingertips tingle and it started to rain,

 When the walls of my bedroom were tremblin' around me,

 This ramshackle voice over attack of a bluesbeat,

 Tellin' me he's only looking for fun.

This was the sound of the very last gang in town.

Chorus

 As heard by my wild young heart, like directions on a cold dark night,

 Sayin', 'Let it out... You're doin' all right.'

 And I heard it in his chain gang soul.

 It wasn't just the same sad song.

 Saying, 'Let it out, you're doing all right.'

 And I'm doing all right, are you doin' all right?

Play at a moderate pace now

 Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go.

 I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow.

 When we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms,

 I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life.

 See these chains I been hearing now for most of my life,

 These chains I been hearing now for most of my life.

 Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on grandmama's radio?

 Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?

 Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?

 Did you hear your favorite song one last time?

If I Could Write, I'd Tell You How Much I've Missed These Nights

 Where We, Dig Around The bones, And Try to Find Peace

 And A Patch For The Hole

 I Lit A Cigarette On A Parking Meter

 The Corner Boys Told Her How I Was Dyin To Meet Her

 Like A Prayer I Said, On Deadman's

 And Drove Up Like A Parade

 You And Your High Top Sneakers

 And Your Sailor Tattoos And Your

 Ole' 55 That You Drove Through The Roof Of The Sky Up Above

 These Indifferent Stars While You Just

 Kept Coming Apart, Right In My Arms

Start off slow, then back to moderate

Tell all the young boys, young girls,

all the Young boys, young girls,

 That you ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night,

Ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night,

Ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night,

 You weren't supposed to leave my life,

 Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on grandmama's radio?

 Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?

 Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?

 Did you hear your favorite song one last time?

 Tell all the young boys, all the young girls,

All the young boys, all the young girls.

Songs used:

Great Expectations

45

She Loves You

I’da Called Ya Woody, Joe

The 59’ Sound

Old White Lincoln

The 59’ Sound (Outro)