Chords for 5170419 Blue Tavern #5 Malcolm Holcombe

_ [D] _ _ [N] _ _ _ I was coming up in western [G] North Carolina, we was riding around.
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_ [G] _ [Eb] I remember, _ _ [Bb] _
you know, [B] the adults, _ [Gbm] I don't know if my aunts were on [Gb] board, but you know,
the good people, [E] the grown [F]-ups would be talking about birthdays and [E] they'd talk about September.
_ September, _ [F] we're looking at one guy, and he said, [G] oh, that's a picture of my [D] old folks' memories.
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_ _ _ _ [Gb] September, please have someone [Eb] in your arms, someone you remember from [Eb] the long way. _
In the [Bb] garden of roses they've been [Bbm] on the ground, [B] frozen souls.
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_ _ _ [Db] Nicotine shake cannot [Fm] cover them, though, such empathy as you [Eb] gave us.
_ _ In [Bb] impossible places where [Bbm] bitterness waits, [B] to carry you [Ab] deeper in the sand.
_ [Eb] Lay down in your [Ab] head, your [Db] mouth cannot hold the [Ab] hearts of the dead, leave you empty.
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[Ab] So to hell [Eb] with you and your selfish [Ab] bad luck, you're paying for me, [Eb] you're just a waste of air.
[Bb] So cursing, I beg, in September [Bbm] I pray, [B] shackles from heaven [Ab] from reason. _
[Eb] Lay down [Ab] in your head, your mouth [Eb] cannot hold the _ hearts of [Ab] the dead, [Eb] leave you empty. _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ Water and sunshine make my [Eb] bones, all my life a little colder. _
Bronchitis, winter and cigarettes [F] leave me alone. _ _
[Bb] Texas [Cm] smile and backbone, heart's torn from my home.
[Ab] There's one more city, one [Bb] less child, and travel's [Eb] where the money was good.
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[Cm] New York City, L [Eb].A., old [C] Philadelphia.
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The working [Cm] man is the working man, _ [Eb] makes a delicate flower grow. _ _ _ _ _
And I'm pouring my [Cm] words too many to read, [Eb] been living in my mind. _
_ Secrets [Ab] fast on top of the [F] others, trouble left behind.
_ [C] There's no love on [Ab] earth, I'd call a friend when darkness settles [Cm] in.
[Eb] And another man in another town, _ don't help [Ab] me at [Eb] Pompeii. _ _ _
_ New [Cm] York City lights [Ab] stay on, Philadelphia [F] knows.
_ Says the [Eb] working man is the working man, [Cm] _
makes a delicate [Eb] flower grow. _ _ _
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_ _ _ God helps [Cm] you when you have [Eb] yourself, how's he gonna help me?
[Ab] And [Cm] I'm going with my friends to Temple Town, [F] nobody thinks he needs me.
_ [Bb] And the [Ab] crowd of the river is white, if I could be old, grand for [Cm] years.
_ [Ab] Only God's blood, [Bb] any people got drowned, living [Eb] and suffering. _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [Cm] New York City lights stay [Ab] on, Philadelphia knows.
_ [Bb] [Ab] Says the working man is the [Cm] working man, _ makes a delicate [Eb] flower grow.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] [Cm] New York City lights [Eb] stay on, Philadelphia [F] knows.
Lord, says the working man [Cm] is the working _ _ [G] man, makes a delicate flower