Chords for John Prine - Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone) - The Tree of Forgiveness

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If you like your apple [Eb] sweet _ and your streets are not concrete, _ you'll be in your bed by nine every night.
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_ Take your hand span corn-fed gal _ and your best friend's four [Bb]-eyed pal to a treat right down [Eb] the street that's down the main. _ _ _
_ _ Now let your conscience be your guide _ if you put your foot inside.
_ You wish you left your well enough [Ab] alone. _ _
_ _ _ _ When you got hell to pay, put the truth [C] on layaway _ _ and blame [Bb] it on that old [Eb] crazy bones.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Crazy bones, crazy bones, crazy [Eb] bones.
_ _ _ _ Well [F] you wish you left your well enough alone.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] When you got hell to pay, _ put the truth [C] on layaway _ _ and blame [Bb] it on that old [Eb] crazy bones.
_ _ _ _ _ Don't be stuck up in Alaska _ when you should be in Nebraska _ on Thursday when it's egg and daughter night.
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When the farmers come to town _ and they spread them eggs around _ and they drop their daughters down [Eb] at the roller ramp. _ _ _ _ _
Well you're probably standing there _ with your slick back, grill cream hair, _ your lucky's and your daddy's fine [Ab] too soon. _ _ _
_ _ If they knew what you were thinking, _ they'd run [C] you out of Lincoln.
_ Just [Bb] blame it on that old crazy [Eb] bones. _ _
_ _ Crazy [Ab] bones, crazy bones, _ [Eb] crazy bones. _ _
_ _ _ [F] Well you must have left your wisdom to that [Bb] home. _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] If they knew what you were thinking, _ they'd run you out [C] of Lincoln.
_ Just blame [Bb] it on that old crazy bones. _
It comes that crazy [Eb] bones.
Ya da da da da da, _ dee la da da da da, _ dee la da da la da ba [Bb] ba ba.
_ _ _ _ _ Dee la da da da da, _ _ dee la da do do ba, _ _ dee la ba ba la da do do do.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ When the grandkids are all grown _ and they put you in a home _ and eternity _ _ _ is approaching [Bb]
fast.
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah you're half [Bbm] out of your head and you probably pissed the [Bb] bed _ and you can't see a thing to save your [Eb] ass. _ _ _ _ _
When fire across the prairie _ and the local cemetery, _ _ they already got your name carved out [Ab] in stone. _ _ _ _
When all them nurses say, grandpa why you walk that [C] way? _
Just blame [Bb] it on that old crazy bones.
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Yeah [F] blame it on [Bb] that old crazy _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] bones.
_ Crazy _ _ _
_ [Eb] bones, crazy bones, crazy bones. _
[F] And everybody _ in [Cm] that old [Bb] folks home, _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] if they knew what you were thinking, _ [Eb] they'd run you out [C] of Lincoln. _
[F] Just blame it on [Bb] that old [Eb] crazy bones.
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And _ everybody [Bbm] in that old [Eb] folks home, _ [Cm] _ _ _
yeah blame it [Bb] on that old crazy [Eb] bones.
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