Chords for Roadblock by Stan Ridgway

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_ _ _ [E] News [D] travels fast [A] in a small [B] desert town.
[E] So it wasn't [D] long at all before [A] the word got around
[B] that a killing [D] mad [A] car was headed their way.
So [E] the sheriff and [A] the boys were gonna stop him out on the highway
right where it [E] intersected Big Black Rock.
[D] So it [A] wasn't long [E] at all [A] before the whole [E] town was out standing round
[G] _ hammering a nail [A] and building up a pride [E] in a [D] roadblock.
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Just [E] hanging around the [D] roadblock.
[E] The _ _ _ _ [D] mayor's wife [A] sat in the shade and [E] talked her way [D] through a few [A] good lies.
_ [E] While her husband [D] practiced [A] his acceptance speech [E] for a medal [D] from the [A] FBI.
_ _ [D] And Granny [A] rocked [E] back in her chair and [D] said,
Just [A] what did this [C#] man do?
_ [A] While some idiot kid from [E] school ate dirty [G] snow cones colored [A]
red, white and blue
[E] at the [D] roadblock.
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Just hanging around the [D] roadblock.
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Just hanging around the [D] roadblock.
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Just [E] hanging around the [D] roadblock.
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_ _ [G] Then the local paper jumped the gun [D] and printed the [F#m] big headline, _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [G] Town is [A] safe from [G] killer car with roadblock [B] at state line. _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [E] Three miles [D] down the highway [A] in a Chevy 69
[E] where a pair of [D] crazy eyeballs [A] gone been left in riding time
[E] doing eight track, [D] eight plans, fog [A] hat and jet blow tongue
[E] and gasoline [D] smoked hand [A] chipped in a little plastic skull
[D] and on the [A] arm a blue [E] tattoo that read,
I'm a son of a [A] bitch.
A map open on the [E] front seat there, the blackest [D] bitch.
One foot [A] slammed on the gas no [E] shoe, just an Argyle sock.
[G] And that car was screaming wild [A] down the highway like lightning
[E] toward the [D] roadblock.
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_ Right toward the [D] roadblock.
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_ _ [D] Then all eyes turned down the highway _ to [F#m] a big cloud of [C#] smoke. _
_ _ [G] And granny went into a mild state of shock [B] and started [C#] to choke.
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_ [G#] _ [G] The boy up in a tree yelled out, _ here [F#] he comes.
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_ _ [G] That 20 [A] man strong [G] aimed and fired point blank [B] _ _ 19 _
_ [F#] shotguns.
[E] Well, the next [D] day the sheriff [E] just tried to stall
while he buried [D] the body [E] out behind a wall.
The newspaper [D] said, [E] killed still on the land.
Seats of boys [A] at the roadblock shot the wrong man.
_ Nobody really [E] knew just who he was.
He [D] was driving [E] on Camaro with dashboard fuzz.
[D] They [A] all burned the car right [E] there at Big Black Rock.
And [G] no one ever said a word at [A] all again [E] about a [D] roadblock.
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_ Not [E] about a [D] roadblock.
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_ Not [E] about a [D] roadblock.
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_ Not [E] about a [D] roadblock.
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_ not [E] about a [D] _ _ [A]
roadblock.
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