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

[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
If you like your apple sweet _ and the streets are not [Eb] concrete, _
_ you'll be in your bed by nine every night.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ Take your hand span corn [Bb]-fed gal _ [F] and your best friend's
four [Bb]-eyed pal to a treat right down [Eb] the street that's down the make. _ _ _
_ _ 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 their way _ and blame
it on that old crazy [Eb] bone. _
_ _ _ Crazy [Ab] bone.
Crazy bone.
_ [Eb] Crazy bone. _
Crazy bone.
[F] Well, you wish you left your _ well enough alone.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ When [Ab] you got hell to pay, _ put the truth [C] on their way _ [F] and blame
it on [Bb] that old [Eb] crazy bone.
_ _ _ _ _ Don't be stuck up in Alaska when you should be in Nebraska on _ _
Thursday when it's egg and daughter night.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ When the farmers come to town and they spread them eggs around _
and they drop their daughters down at the roller [Eb] rink _ _ _ _ _ where
you're probably standing there _ with your slick-backed girl cream hair. _
Your lucky's in, your daddy's fine [Ab] to stone. _ _ _ _
_ If he knew what you were thinking,
_ they'd run you out of [C] Lincoln. _
_ Just blame it on that old crazy [Eb] bone. _ _ _ _
Crazy [Ab] bone.
_ Crazy bone.
_ [Eb] Crazy bone. _ Crazy bone.
_ [F] Well, you must have left your wisdom to that [Bb] _ home. _ _
_ _ [Ab] If he knew what you were thinking,
_ they'd run you out [C] of Lincoln.
_ Just blame it [Bb] on that old crazy [Eb] bone.
Here comes that crazy bone. Yeah. _ _ _
_ _ Feel that. _ _ _
_ _ _ Feel that. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Yeah. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Feel that. _ _ _
_ _ Feel that. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ When the grandkids are all grown _ _ and they put you in a home,
_ and eternity _ _ is approaching [Bb] _ fast. _
_ _ _ [Bbm] Yeah, you're half out of your head,
_ and you're probably [Bb] pissed to bed,
_ and you can't see a thing to save [Eb] your 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 [C] that way?
[Fm] Just blame it [Bb] on that old crazy bone.
_ [C] _ _ _ Yeah, [F] blame it [Bb] on that _ old crazy _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] bone.
Crazy bone.
_ [Eb] Crazy bone.
Crazy bone.
_ [F] And _ everybody in that [Bb] old folks' home,
_ _ _ _ [Ab] if he knew what you were thinking,
_ [Eb] they'd run you out [C] of Lincoln.
_ [F] Just blame it [Bb] on that old [Eb] crazy bone. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] And _ [Bb] everybody in that old [Eb] folks' home,
_ [C] _ _ _ yeah, blame it [Bb] on that old [Eb] crazy [Ab] bone.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Ebm] They'd run you out [C] of Lincoln.
_ [F] Just blame it [Bb] on that old [Eb] crazy bone.
_ Here comes that [Bb] crazy [Eb] bone.
Yeah.
[Bb] Da da [Eb] da da.
De la da ba da ba. _ _
De la da da la da ba _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ ba.
De la da ba da ba. _ _
De la da ba da ba. _ _
De la da da la da _ [Eb] _
ba. _ _ _ _ _ _