Chords for Red Clay as performed in 1975 by Mark Murphy and the very young Brecker Brothers

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[Bb] _ [Cm] Screen doors laughing somewhere [Eb] on a [Bbm] side porch
_ [B] A sleepy [Db] morning [Eb] way out in [F] the [Cm] boondocks
Stories are being [F] told on the [Db] red clay
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[F] _ [Cm] Hey, red clay's where we came from to [Bbm] begin with
_ And where [Db] we're going, _ [Eb] time comes [F] to split
[Cm] _ _ Sands are being dug on the red [Db] _ clay
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_ _ [Abm] _ _ [Db] _ [Eb] Always a [G] grooving _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
morning
[Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Db] Midnight [F] sleep, tight as sun was [C] playing something on [Bb] _
backstep
_ [Eb] The happy faces [C] look out of the [F] windows
[Cm] _ Hoping [Bbm] something good on the red [Eb] clay _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ [Cm] Da-da-da-dum-da-da [Bbm]-da-da-da-da [B]-da-da [Db] _ [C]-da-da [F]-da-da-da-da [Gm]-da-da
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_ [Cm] Waiting for the pita to [Bb] eat
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_ _ [B] You watch the [Eb] roses plummeting on [G] the herb [Gm] beds
_ Life's beaten [F] lived on the red _ [Ebm] _ [Fm] clay
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[F] _ _ [Cm] Moving down my baby, oh, she's [Bbm] tired
[Db] I cradled her [Fm] fun things, watch her [Dm] start [Gm] smiling
_ Nobody [Bb] being sad on my red [Eb] clay.
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_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bbm] Don't do [B] _ _ [Db] mud [Eb] roofs.
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Deep blues.
[Ebm] Big [Fm] blue.
[F] Big blue.
Red clay's [C] just the dirt but it's a life song.
[Db] _ So [Eb] what you do [F] is just sit in that groove [Cm] and
_ there's always a lot to [Bbm] do on the red _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] clay. _ _ _ _ _
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