Chords for Austin City Limits 1409: The Geezinslaws - "On the Street Where You Live"'

_ _ _ _ _ _ What a crowd!
_ _ _ What a night! _
_ _ _ _ But let's not peak too early.
Hey!
Y'all know Son Gisenslaw? _ _
Favorite wherever he goes.
I see Son not long ago he had both ears bandaged up
and I said, what happened?
He said, you know my little woman was ironing
and the phone rang and I accidentally answered the iron.
I said, what happened to your other ear?
He said, you know as soon as I put it down the darn thing rang again.
Oh! _
_ _ _ Rang again! _ _ _
So when Son was a little kid, you know,
the other kids used to get him to play hide and go seek.
Then they wouldn't go look for him.
Got him a mic paranoid, you know.
And when he was just young for Christmas he got a BB gun one year
and he's playing with it all the time and his mother tells him,
she said, you know what?
Son, you're not going to be happy
until you put somebody's eye out with that BB gun.
_ And in Son's favor I'll have to say he never put anybody's eye out.
Of course on his mother's favor I'll have to say too,
he's never really been happy. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Never really been happy.
_ _ Went to the psychiatrist, you know, Son did one time. _
Son's daddy was a gambler.
Bet anything on anything else.
And he called him in one day and said,
I got you some good news and some bad news.
And Son said, pray tell, what is it?
And his dad said, the bad news is I lost your mother in a poker game.
And Son said, what's the good news?
And his daddy said, the good news is you're going to get to go with her. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
So Son went to the psychiatrist.
You know, they had him laid down in the hall there at first.
He's kind of laying there.
The nurse walks by.
She said, are you comfortable?
He said, I'll make a living. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So the doctor said, what's troubling you, Son?
And Son said, I'll tell you the truth, Doc, I've never really been happy.
And the doctor said, have you ever put anybody's eye out with a BB gun?
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ We thought we would do a little dramatic tune here tonight
for the ladies that like that sort of thing.
This is about, I think, as thrilling as you can get.
_ But it builds, you know what I mean.
We need, what we need is a little pin spot
for one right on Son's face
and another one right down on his hands there. _
_ _ _ Perfect.
Perfect.
All right. _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Bb] The song of the pregnant ballerina.
I should have danced all night.
Hey!
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Let's see when I finish this intro.
Can you feel it building?
Is it kind of getting tense on you and dramatic?
Your fingers tingling, Tequila Jake?
Oh, yeah.
_ _ _ Because when I finish this intro,
Son is going to leap over to this microphone
and burst forth in [Bb] glorious song.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I have often walked down this street before.
_ _ Wasn't quite as glorious as we had planned, but hey!
I said she's building.
[Bb] And the sidewalks always stood [Eb] beneath my feet before.
Can you [G] feel that tension going now?
I believe one more time, Bubba, you'll have it nailed.
[Db] All at once am [Ab] I, seven stories high.
Several stories high.
High.
Several.
High.
Several.
Sunset high.
High.
_ _ [Db] No, it's just [Eb] on the street where [Ab] you live
_ _ _ _ are there lilac trees in the heart of town.
Can you hear a lark in any [Eb] other part of town?
[Db] Does it check my heart [Ab] of every door?
[Db] No, it's just [Eb] on the street [Ab] where you live
back [Db] at North _ [Ab] Bay Lake.
[Eb] Just to know [Ab] somehow you're near.
[Db] The _ older [Ab] power and feeling
[Bb] that any second you may [Eb] suddenly undo. _ _
_ _ [Ab] Stop and stare, they don't bother me.
For there's no where's house on earth that [Eb] I'd rather be.
[Db] Let the time go by, [Ab] don't care if I
[Db] can be here [Eb] on the street [Ab] where you live at.
[Db] Can be [Eb] here on the street [Ab] where you live.
_ _ _ [N] Thank you. _ _
_ _ _ _ Y'all have heard of the Gee's and Slats,