Chords for John Prine - "Donald & Lydia

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Small town, bright light, [D] Saturday [A] night. _
_ _ Pinballs and pool halls [B] are flashing their [E] lights.
_ _ Making [A] change behind the counter [D] in a [A] penny arcade
_ sat the fat girl daughter [E] of Virginia [A] and Ray, _ _ _ _ Lydia. _ _ _ _
Lydia _ hid _
[D] her thoughts [A] like a cat. _
Behind her small eyes, [B] sunk deep in [E] her fat. _
_ She [A] read a romance magazine [D] up [A] in her room
and felt just like Sunday [E] on Saturday _
[A] afternoon. _ _ _
[D] But dreaming _ _ [Bm] just [A] comes natural, _ _ _ like the [E] first breath _ [A] from a baby. _ _ _
Like [D] sunshine _ _ _
[A] feeding daisies, _ [E] like a love hidden deep in [A] your heart. _ _ _
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Bunk beds, shaved [D] heads, Saturday [A] night.
A warehouse of strangers [B] with 60 [E]-watt lights. _
_ _ _ [A] Staring through the ceiling, [D] just wanting [A]
to be
they weren't of too many, [E] a young [A] PFC, _ _ _ _ Donald.
_ _ _ There were spaces between Donald [D] and whatever [A] he'd said. _ _
Strangers had forced him [B] to live in his [E] head. _ _
_ He'd [A] envisioned the details [D] of [A] romantic scenes
after midnight in the stillness [E] of the barracks [A]
latrine.
_ _ _ [D] But dreaming _ _ just [A] comes natural, _ _ [E] like the first breath _ from [A] a baby.
_ _ [D] Like _ sunshine _ _ [A]
feeding daisies, _ [E] like a love hidden deep in [A] your heart. _ _ _ _ _
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Hot love, cold love, [D] no love [A] at all. _
A portrait of guilt _
[B] is hung [E] on the wall. _
_ _ _ [A] Nothing is wrong _ [D] and nothing [A] is right.
_ Donald and Lydia _ [E] made love [A] that night. _ _ _
Love. _ _ _ _
They made love in the mountains, [D] they made love in [A] the streams.
They made love in the valleys, [B] they made love in [E] their dreams. _
_ _ _ [A] But when they were finished, [D] there was nothing to [A] say.
It was mostly they made love [E] from ten [A] miles _ away. _ _
[D] But dreaming _ _ just [A] comes natural, _ _ _ [E] like the first breath _ [A] from a baby. _ _ _
[D] Like _ sunshine _ [A] feeding _ _ daisies, like [E] a love hidden deep [A] in your heart.
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