Donald and Lydia Chords by John Prine

[C] Small town, bright lights, [F] Saturday _ [C] night
_ _ Pinballs and pool halls, [D] flashing [G] their lights
_ _ _ [Am] Making [C] change behind the counter in [F] a penny _ [C] arcade
Sat the fat girl, daughter of [Em]
Virginia and [C] Ray _ _
_ Lydia, _ _ _ _ _ Lydia _ hid her [F] thoughts like [C] a cat
Behind her small eyes, [D] sunk deep in [G] her fat
_ _ She [C] read _ Romance Magazine [F]
up in [C] her room
It felt just like Sunday [G] on a Saturday _ [C] afternoon _ _
_ [F] But dreaming _ _ just [C] comes natural _ _
Like [G] the first breath _ [C] from a baby _ _
_ [F] Like sunshine, _ _ [C] peeping daisy _
Life [G] of love, hidden deep in [C] your heart
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_ _ Bunk beds, shaved [F] heads, Saturday [C]
night
_ A warehouse of strangers, [D] with sixty [G] watt lights
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Staring through the ceiling, [F] just wanting [C] to be
Lay one of too many, [G] a young [C] PFC _ _
Donald, _ _ _ _ _ _ there were spaces between Donald [F] and whatever [C] he said
_ Strangers had forced him [D] to live in [G] his head
_ _ _ [C] He envisioned the details [F] of romantic [C] scenes
After midnight in the stillness [G] of the barracks, [C] the train _ _
[E] _ [F] But dreaming _ just comes [C] natural _ _
Like [G] the first breath _ _ [C] from a baby _ _
Like [F] _ _ sunshine, _ [C] peeping daisy _ _
_ [G] Life of love, hidden deep in [C] your heart
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] Hot love, cold love, [F] no love [C] at all
A portrait of guilt, _ [F#] hung on [G] the wall
_ _ _ _ [C]
Nothing is wrong, _ [F]
nothing [C] is right _
Donald and Lydia _ [G]
made love [C] that night
_ [F] _
_ [C] _ Love, _ [Dm] _
they [C] made love in the mountains
They [F] made love in [C] the street
They made love in the valley
They [F#] made love in their [G]
dream
_ _ _ [C] But when they was finished, [F] there was nothing [C] to say
Cause mostly they made love [G]
ten miles [C] away _ _
_ [F] But dreaming _ _ just [C] comes natural _ _
_ [G] Like the first [B] breath _ [C] from a baby _ _
[E] Like [F] _ sunshine, _ _ [C] peeping daisy _ _
Life [G] of love, hidden deep in [C] your heart _ _
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