Chords for Jim Lauderdale "Alligator Alley"

Well, I'll tell you what this is the nature
Conservancy night any requests
_ _ Alligator alley a [Dm] perfect song for the nature
_ Conservancy, this is a tune.
I got to write for breakfast.
I always like that.
[A] Well, we got that one next week
Oh, I get that next week
This is a tune.
I got to co-write with one of my favorite writers in the world Robert Hunter
[Dm]
So here we go alligator alley _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Car broke down an alligator alley trying to get away from Broward County
Open the sky.
There's no returning
30,000 [Am] acres of [Dm] Everglades burning
_ _ Southern Florida dry as tinder
lightning turned the swamp ascended
Sand by the roadside plumbing the air
Rushing the ashes out of my hair
_ [Am] _
[G] alligator alley
alligator alley [F] no [Dm] time to sit and dally
[Am]
Everglades [G] burning everglades [F] burn once it's gone.
There's no [Dm] return
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Got picked up by a girl named Alice said she'd drive me clear to Dallas
One last nod to the blazing trees.
I said drop me off in Nashville, please
_ She said what about your automobile?
I said leave it for someone
To steal it don't really run so hot the rods are gone and the brakes are shot
_ _ [A]
alligator [G] alley alligator [C] alley no [Dm] time to sit and dally
[Am]
Everglades [D] burning everglades [F] burn once it's gone.
There's no [Dm] return
She _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
said you look like Elvis Presley
I said, I know [D] it tends to stress me gives [Dm] rise to undo
Expectations and other such like aggravations
_ _ Goodbye alligator snakes [D] and spiders
Florida panthers [Dm] big black bears girls named Lorna Alice and [A] Sally
Goodbye, Florida [Dm] alligator alley
_ _ [A] [G] alligator alley alligator alley no [A] time to sit and [Dm] dally
[D] Everglades burning everglades burn [A] once it's gone.
There's no return
[Am] alligator [Gm] alley alligator [F] alley no time to [Dm] sit and dally
[Am] Everglades [D] burning everglades [F] burn once it's gone.
There's no turn once it's gone.
There's no turn
once it's gone
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