Chords for John Prine - Clay Pigeons

_ _ I don't usually sing _ other people's songs because I can barely sing my own. _
_ _ But [G] about five or six years ago, Merle Haggard put a version of If I Could Only Fly out on
record, _ a Blaze Foley song.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ I started asking around, I said, where can I get a Blaze Foley record?
I want to hear him sing If I Could Only Fly.
The more people I asked, the more people looked at me really strange.
_ Turns out that we knew each other _ _ [Ab] back in the 70s.
_ You know, _ [G] I'm imagining we probably met at Armadillo World [F] Headquarters.
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If you walked out the back door there, you could very well hang out with somebody for
a week and not even know their name, you know?
_ _ _ _ _ So I hope we had a good time.
_ _ Anyway, I got two various friends, _ _ Blazes and friends of mine, that gave me a bunch
of his _ records and tapes.
I was listening to him sing If I Could Only Fly and I heard him sing this song here.
It just blew me right out of my chair.
I thought, my God, that sounds like I should have stayed awake and wrote that some night.
[Gm] _ _ It's called Play [Eb] Pigeons.
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_ _ _ _ _ I'm going down to the greenhouse station, gonna [Gm] buy a ticket to ride.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] I'm gonna find that lady with two or three kids and [F] sit down by her side.
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Ride till the sun comes up and down around [Gm] about two or three times.
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] Smoking cigarettes in the last seat.
_ [F] Sing my song for the people I [G] meet and get along with it all.
_ [Bb] _ Well, [Gm] the people say, [Eb] oh, _ _ [Bb] sing a song with a friend, _ _ _ [F] change the shape that I'm in _ _ and
start playing again.
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I'd like to stay, but I might have to go to [Eb] start over again.
_ _ I [Bb] might go back down to Texas or go to somewhere [F] that I've never been _ _ _ [Bb] and get up in the morning,
go out at night, [Gm] and I won't have to go home.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Get used to being alone, _ _ _ [F] change the words of the song, _ _ [Bb] and start singing again.
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_ _ _ _ I'm tired of running around looking for answers to [Eb] questions that I don't really know.
_ _ _ [Bb] I could build me a castle with memories just to have somewhere to go. _ _ _
Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back in [Gm] the saddle again.
_ [Eb] _ Feed [Bb] the pigeons some clay, _ _ _ turn [F] the night into day, _ _ _ [F]
and [Bb] start talking again.
We [Gm] don't know what to say.
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I'm going down to the greenhouse station.
I'm going [Gm] to buy a ticket to ride.
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I'm going [Bb] to find that lady with two or three kids [F] and sit down by her side. _ _
_ _ Ride till the sun comes up and down around about [Gm] two or three times.
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_ [Bb] Smoking cigarettes in the last seat.
_ [F] Play my song for the people of me _ and get [Bb] along with it all. _ _
_ Well, [Gm] the people say, oh, [Eb] _
_ feed the pigeons some clay, _ _ _ turn the [F] night into day, _ _
_ and [Bb] start talking again.
[Gm] We don't know what to say.
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_ _ _ _ Blaze Boat. _
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