Chords for Orange Juice - Rip It Up / The Day I Went Down To Texas, 1983

yeah
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[Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ [C] when i first saw you [D] something stood within [C] me
something stopped me in [D] the way
[C] if i could have [D] helped you
i would have [C] helped you
rip it up [D] and start again
_ _ _ [Em] rip it up
and start [D]
again
[G] _ _ [C] rip it up
[D] and start [G] again _ [Am] i hope
you're not a [G] star
cause you make me out
[Am] i hope to god
[G] i hope to [Am] god
i hope to god i'm running [G] out
cause you make me out
[Am] i hope to god
[G] i hope to [C] god
i hope [D] to _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] god
when i next saw [D] you
i [G] grew sad for [C] you
i [Em] was stuck like glue [D] to my side
[G] _ _ [D] [C] if i could have
[A] helped you i [G] would have
[C] helped you swallow [E] my _ [G] pride
rip it up and [D] start again
[G] _ _ [F#m] [G] rip it up and [E] start
_ [D] again
[Am] i hope to god you're not a [G] star
cause you make me out
[Am] i hope to god
i [G] hope to god
[Em] i hope to god you're not a [G] star
cause you make me out
[Am] i hope to god
[G] i hope to god
[Em] and there was times i'd take my [D] pen
to watch you start again [C] you'd confess
[G] the hurt you'd slap
the [D] one you can't quite express
[Em] you know me [D] i'm acting _ dumb [Em] dumb
you know the scene is [D] very
_ _ [G] ungrump
and i'll visit some [D] kind of
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] home
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
rip [G] _ _ _ it [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] up and start [Bm] again
_ i [G] said rip it up and start [D] again
_ i [G] said rip it up
and rip it [D] up rip it up
and rip it [Em] up rip it up
and [Bm] start again _ [G] ooooh _ ooooh
[D] _
ooooh
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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[G] the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ day i went
down to texas
take it away Zeke _
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easy [F#] to change [C] your mind
easy [F#] to keep
[C] the bad past for me step [Dm] here
up towards the land [A] that
throws the man where
a man can be lost
[Dm] _ place in the past where we [C#] knew
_ [F#] _ [Dm] who now found [G#] more past [Am] just knew [C] _ texas
is a place
down in [F] _ [B] texas
[C] now i'm kneeling
[A#] in a drunken [C] sock
i jumped on the back of a Cadillac
the static face of a lucky
[F] son of a _ gun _ _ _ _ _ _
you ride [Cm] _ occasionally
[C] _ _
in such [Cm] a perfunctory
_ style
to spark [Am] myself
i always [Dm] smile while the memory
of [F] my past
is still [Dm] alive
i'm sure that's my mother
once in a [C#] sky
you should see
what i'm [Dm] about _ _