Chords for HOT ROD RACE No 1 by Arkie Shibley

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_ _ Now me and my wife and my brother Joe took off in my Ford from San Pedro.
We hadn't much gas, the tires was low, but the dog gone for it could really go.
_ _ Now along about the middle of the night we were ripping along like white folks might when the murky behind he blinked his lights,
he [D] honked his horn and he [G] flew out of sight. _
We had twin pots in the Columbia, but you people may think that I'm in a rut,
but to you folks who don't take a job, that's two [D] carburetors and an [G] overdrive.
We made grease spots out of many a good town and left the cops' heads spinning around and around.
They wouldn't chase, they'd run [D] and hide, but me and that Mercury stayed [G] side by side.
_ _ Now we were Ford men and we likely knew that we would race until something blew,
and we thought it over, now [D] wouldn't you?
[G] _ I looked down at my love and cried, her face was blue, I thought she had died.
We left streets and [D] towns about forty feet wide, but me and that Mercury stayed [G] side by side. _
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My brother was pale, he said he was sick, he said he was just a nervous wreck,
but why should I [D] worry for what the heck?
Me and that Mercury was still [G] neck and neck.
Now on through the desert we did glide, a-flying low and a-flying wide.
Me and that Mercury was taking a [D] ride and we stayed exactly [G] side by side. _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ [G] _ I _ looked in my mirror and I saw something coming, I thought it was a plane with the way it was running.
It was humming along, it had a terrible face, and I knew [D] right then it was the [G] end of the race.
When it flew by us I turned the other way, the guy and the Mercury had nothing to say,
for it was a kid in a hopped-up model A. _ _ _
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