Chords for ROBBIE ROBERTSON-WOGAN-BBC 1-1987

When his own way is a singer and an actor and I'll praise the Lord and pass the biscuits
He has a hit somewhere down the crazy River Robbie Robertson _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ I can see it now _ _ the distant red neon shivered in the heat.
I was feeling like a stranger
_ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] You [C] know where people play games [Fm] with night I _ _
_ [Cm] Was too hot to sleep.
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[Dm] I
Followed the sound of [Cm] a jukebox coming from up the levee
_ _ All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling right behind me.
_ I
Turned around and she said _
[Fm] Why do you always end up down at Nick's cafe? _
_ _ I?
Said I [Cm] don't know the [G] wind just kind of pushed me this way
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She said hey the rich _ _ _
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Oh
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[Bb] You
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] Take _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ a picture of this
The fields are empty
_ [Cm] abandoned 59 Chevy
_ _ _ Laying in [C] the backseat listening [Fm] to Little Willie John
_ _ Yeah, that's when time stood [Bb] still
_ [F] _ You know, I think I'm gonna go down to [G] Madame X.
Let her [B] read my mind
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She said that do stuff don't do
me _ [Db] Me
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_ _ Yes, [Eb] _ sir, [Ab] _
[G] I _ can't _ _ _
_ _ Catch [Cm] _ _ _ _
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_ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] the blue tree
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Blazes [G] never been [Ab] before
[Bb] Look for [Eb] me
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_ _ _ Wait, did you hear that?
_ _ Oh, this is sure stirring up some ghosts
_ _ _ She said this one thing you gotta learn
_ It's not to be afraid of [Fm] it.
I
Said no, I like [C] it.
I like it.
It's good
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She said you like it [Cm] now, but you learn to love [G] it later
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Robbie Robertson
That's one of those unusual hits of [N] the year