Cooky and Lila Chords by Dr. Hook

_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
He was a short order cook and not too much to look at and he traded in his foot
for a medal [C] in the war
_ He loved a girl named Lila in a bar across the highway
And you ought to see him smiling at her coming [F] through the door
_ _ Lila always knew
She wasn't no raving beauty
She traded in a virtue to a [Am] trucker at [C] 16
_ But she forgets to remember
How he left her off in Denver [C] when she sees a cookie smiling as she opens up the [F] screen
And he says
How [Bb] about [F] a cup of coffee?
Take a load off, take your shoes off, here's [E] the sugar and the [C] cream _ _
[Bb] Cookie's been to war
[F] And Lila's been to Denver
And both of them are casualties of someone else's [F] dream _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
Cookie pours the trucker's coffee
Lila serves the rigger's whiskey
And resists their invitations to go riding [C] for a while
He goes down a diner across the highway
On a shelf above the pastry
There's a cup reserved for Lila
And the man who [F] makes her smile
When he [Bb] says
How _ [F] about a cup of coffee?
Take a load off, take your shoes off, here's the sugar [C] and the cream
_ [Bb] Cause Cookie's been to [F] war
And Lila's been to Denver
And both of them are casualties [C] of someone else's dream _ _ _ _
Now as the nation rolls along
[F] Like a semi down the highway
Casting lonely broken bodies in the grass [C] along the road
_ _ I finally found my reason
For believing in the future
Seeing Cookie and his Lila drinking coffee [F] all alone
Oh yes!
[Bb] How _ _ [F]
about a cup of coffee?
Take a load off, take your shoes off, here's the sugar and [C] the cream
_ Cause [Bb] Cookie's been to war
[F] And Lila's been to Denver
And both of them are casualties [C] of someone [F] else's dream
_ [Bb] Cookie's been to war [F] and to Denver
And both of them are [C] casualties of someone [F] else's dream
_ _ _ [N] _