Chords for Peter Case, "Old Part Of Town" Dec 16, 1986

You could hear the new song too.
How long is the new song?
It's about five minutes long.
_ Epic.
_ _ _ [G] I'll just do the [Gb] new song and get the bass [E] vocals.
_ We could do the bass.
You can come back in spring and do the bass vocals.
This song is called Four Parts Now.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I've played this song about twice or three times. _
Well I was held up by an old pair of pants
Out on the beltway where the business [Gbm] is done _
[E] As I lay on the asphalt [A] in the glow of [E] light boxes
The store manager muttered, but I know where he's from
_ When the [A] town is so quiet [E] you hear the bell tower ticking
_ [A] Out on the beltway they're [E] still frying up the chicken
When the tempers are short [B] and the [E] hours are long
_ _ Honey won't you meet me in the old part of town
Old [A] part of town
You can still hear the footsteps of the whole [E] history
Old [A] part of town
You can still hear the heartbeat of the whole [B] history _
[E] When the tempers are short and the hours are long
Honey won't you meet [A] me in the old part of town
_ _ A newspaper with big headlines that seems to stare [E] right through you
_ Jumped off a boxcar and blew [B] into town
[E] Picked a spot with two beer cans and a storm candy wrapper
The broom's been whipping up the alley folks who've never heard a sound
[A] Many hours pass midnight [E] when they stop keeping tabs
[A] The one-turn of the quarter is [E] now empty and sad
[A] But honey I think there's [E] still a time to be had
In the [Eb] old part of town [Gbm] where your mom met your dad
[B] Honey won't you meet me in the old [E] part of town
_ Two _ red high heel shoes split up around midnight
_ They said they'd meet later by the fountain on [B] first
Four tires came [A] screaming different [E] directions
_ And picked them all up before they stepped off the curb
_ _ [A] Meanwhile out [E] on the beltway cars are backed up in [A] lines
And the stars are blocked out [E] by the shines of the [A] sun
You might want to take [E] it for a sign of the times
But honey won't you meet me in the old part of town
[B] Honey won't you meet me in the old [E] part of town
The old [A] part of town, the old [E] part of town
The old part [B] of town, the old [Em] part of [A] town
[E] _ _ _ _ _ Oh, where? _
[Ab] Over there.
I don't think it's called the old part of town.
Where is the old part of [Gb] town?
It's in Kansas City actually when I wrote that one.
It's a pretty [F] clear cut over there.
It's really old part of town.
It's [Gb] really great.
Did you get the barbeque there?
Yeah, I went to that place.
Oh, Brian.
Yeah, Brian.
Great place, man.
Everybody says that.
When I was [Bb] driving from Denver to Chicago, I was going to reroute through KC
Instead of [G] through Omaha just to go there.
And it was close from snow a couple of years ago.
So I never got to Arkansas.
You always hear the story of the president's date there
And big leagues from all over the world
And international leaders and princesses and stuff eat there.
And you go down to this place, Brian's Barbeque,
A restaurant that everybody recommends in town.
And it's just basically a little [Gm] storefront.
And they just throw the barbeque in bags.
And throw it at you.
It's real good.
Count Basie used to live on an island somewhere.
[Eb] And he'd fly up [Bb] to Kansas City.
_ [Gm] He'd be playing, but that would be the first place he'd hit.
[N] Arthur Bryant.
Yeah, Arthur Bryant.
He'd get a whole bunch of ribs and he'd spit on them
To keep everybody else from eating them. Yeah. _ _
That's him.
_ [Eb] Ribs also we should [G] mention in the Berkeley, Oakland area.
Everett and Jones.
[Bb] Oh yeah.
That's the place we went down to that one night.
That's the place.
Brian, there's five of them.
There's one, where was it, in Berkeley?
The chain of Old Dixie.
The hot barbeque. _ _ _
You can't eat that.
You shouldn't.
Yeah, we ate that.
We woke up like, you know, three cars away or something like that.
See, we drove from Sacramento to Berkeley to see the Chute Reavers.
And then we had to drive [B] back that night to Sacramento.
So we had the hot barbeque to keep us [Eb] awake, like three in the morning.
So we had to drive back to Sacramento.
It kept us awake all through [Gb] like a couple of weeks.
It kept us awake.
It was wild barbeque.
Sort of a segue, [Bb] something you've got to see before [Cm] the course of the year might be over by the time this runs.
But I was just [Bb] in Vegas with Suzy.
We were at the Tropicana where the Treniers play.
I saw the Treniers.
In the lounge.
I played that Tropicana over there in Vegas one time.
You did?
Yeah.
In what context? _
Isn't there just like a bar over there or something like that, like a club?
[G] Yeah, the lounge.
Well, no, the Tropicana is a major gigantic hotel.
Oh, maybe I didn't play.
_ _ Maybe it was the Tropicana on Santa Monica Boulevard.
I played the Troubadour.
That's what I'm thinking.
_ _ The cabaret club.
Man, at Treniers, I mean, we stayed [Bb] in the cheap, I mean, cheap because it's an off-season room.
And you just walk downstairs and sit at the bar and you're like [F] 10 feet away from me.
You're just rocking.
And they open up with the [G] house party, you know, Amos Milburn and Louis Jordan.
They were great.
Did they do the Duke Ellington stuff?
[N] They did Caravan with a drum solo when I saw them.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
That was the Witnesses that did that.
I saw Louis Priemus' Witnesses in Las Vegas.
That's different.
These guys are black.
Yeah, I know, I know.
These are white guys.
But these guys also did_
They did a killing with Sam Butera [Ab] about Wynonie Harris.
Boy, this is real esoteric stuff.
I'm sure you all understand this.
But when I played Wynonie Harris for Sam Butera, who I think sounds a lot like Wynonie,
I know he wasn't lying when he said he never heard of [Bb] Wynonie because he said it, he listened, he said,
yeah, she's pretty good.
Wow.
I [Eb] mean, he's just, wow.
[Bb] Wynonie's a guy.
You have a cat named Wynonie, don't you? Sure, [C] sure.
Got one named [Bb] Fannie Mae, too.
Together.
_ _ _ I saw the Treniers when I was in Las Vegas.
Now you're sure you saw the Treniers? In April.
Yeah, positive, positive.
Because the guy had the blade?
[N] Yeah.
_ I saw the Treniers.
Very happening.
What do you mean he had the blade?
He came out my little brother.
A phony _ straight blade.
A big one.
Do they do Puntang?
They do Puntang, yes.
Really?
Because I asked them if they did it, they go, no, no, we don't.
Do you remember that?
Where was it?
I [Eb] saw them in April.
You know what?
I caught [Bb] the end of his show and he said something out loud about Puntang.
So I assumed he was going to do it next Saturday.
I didn't get down there for it.
In fact, they did like, you know, Bald Head.
They do Professor Longhair's song.
[N] They do all kinds of strange stuff.
They were really heavy.
They made that.