Chords for Alex Chilton on 120 Minutes (1985)

a whole pile of all-time classics.
Then, heading up his own band, he also produced some of the
cramps earliest and best recordings.
Now he's making his home here in New Orleans.
Ladies and
gentlemen, meet Alex Chilton.
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_ _ [G] _ Lost my job, now I can stay out all night long. _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ Fired [G] me from my job, people.
[C] _ _ _ I'm gonna sleep all day long. _ _ _ _ _
[Am] Lost my [D] job, guess I gotta go [G] steal and rob.
I used to live upriver in Memphis and Memphis has got, _ _ [Db] well it hasn't got a lot of the things
that New Orleans has.
_ I feel a lot freer here.
I guess I've been here for four years,
lived down that way a mile or so.
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There's a lot of great music in New Orleans and a lot of great
musicians here.
I've learned a lot from a lot of the jazz players I've met here and I've learned a
lot about the history of rock and roll music here and things like that.
There's a lot of great music
here that [G] I'd never heard before.
I'm sure a lot of people haven't.
[C] _ _ _ [G] Moving lights, flashing [Gm] signs, blinking [A] faster than your [F] mind.
Moving [Bb] people with _ [F] suggestions, leaving no [Bb] _ unanswered [F] questions.
You can [Bb] live without direction [F] and you don't have [Bb] to be perfection.
[F] Life is love.
[G] _ In a [C] neon rainbow, _ [G] oh, a [Gm] neon rainbow, _ [A] _ oh.
I was a high school student at age 16 and hanging around in Memphis and there [D] were,
there was a lot of recording work going on there and I fell into a scene where
_ I got to go with a group I was playing with into a studio and record and we _
recorded this thing called The Letter and a couple of other things and The Letter was a big [Am] hit. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Give me a ticket [F] for an airplane, _ [G] _ ain't got time to [D] take a fast [Am] train.
_ Lonely days are [F] gone,
I'm a going [E] home.
My baby just wrote [Am] me a letter. _
_ _ _ _ _ I don't care how much [F] money I gotta spend,
[G] got to get back to [D] my baby [Am] again.
Lonely [F] days are gone, I'm a going home.
[E] My baby just wrote [Am] me a
letter.
_ _ _ _ When she [G] wrote me a [F] letter, said she [C] couldn't live [G] without me no more.
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Listen, [G] Mr.
Can't You [F] See, got to get back [G] to my baby once more.
[F] Anyway, [Am] yeah, give me a ticket [F] for an
airplane, _ _ [G] ain't got time [D] to take a fast train.
[Am] Lonely days are [F] gone, I'm a going home.
[Em] My baby
just