Chords for Sweet Jezebel

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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ In Louisiana where it's swampy as the land, where cotton falls like snow
[Db] Where [Eb] alligators swing, mosquitoes [Abm] drink, and wild things love to grow
_ [Ebm] It was past midnight, I had one headlight [Db] and my [Dbm] gasket along the floor
_ [Eb] I was tired of walking blocks and drinking hard knocks and locking my dreams [Eb] in a drawer _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] Up ahead [Abm] in the night the deer took [Dbm] flight as the warm rain started to fall
_ [Abm] Heard my tire squeal as I jerked the wheel and [Dbm] drove straight [Eb] into an oak [Abm] tree wall
_ My head in a daze, I escaped through a [Dbm] maze of busted steel and glass
[Abm] _ Stuck plenty of holes with holes in the toes, I [Dbm] started running [Eb] through the toll [Abm]-wet grass
I _ _ _ [E] saw a house all [Eb] alone, as bare as a [Dbm] bone, like someone had [Abm] thrown it away
[E] It reeked of [Eb] smoke and I gladly [Dbm] choked, memories of a [Eb] bad day
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stood at the door, [Gb] soaked to my [Abm] core and feeling [E] just a little _ insane
When the door opened wide, a man stood [Eb] inside and said,
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[E] _ _ _ [Eb] His eyes were dark like the eyes of a shark and his face was neither young nor old
[Gb] _ I paused for a beat before moving my feet and crossing that wide threshold
[Ebm] It was a summer night and a fire burning bright but [Dbm] I began to shiver and shake
_ [Eb] He gave me a pot of fur, a smile that was pure [E] and [Eb] a plate full of devil's [Eb] food cake
_ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] He sat down on a chair like a lion in his [Dbm] lair and lit up a thin cigar
_ _ [Abm] With an Arabian seat reached down by his feet and [Eb] picked up a red [Abm] guitar
He ran his hands down the strings like his fingers were [Dbm] wings and a strange, silent spell
_ [Abm] He said, this is my story, my life and my [Db] glory, oh this [Eb] is my [Abm] sweet _ Jezebel _
_ _ _ [E] _ Jezebel was [Eb] slim with a beanie trim [Db] and I [Dbm] stared in [Abm] wonder and awe
_ [E] Her neck was [Eb] allayed with pearl and [Dbm] jade and I couldn't find [Eb] one single flaw
_ [E] I started to play, [Gb] I started to pray [Abm] as that fire burned hotter than hell
[E] _ And I could feel a hole burning clear through my [Eb] soul as I listened to sweet Jezebel
_ I listened to sweet _
[E] Jezebel
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_ _ _ sang about sin and the places she'd been [Dbm] and I found myself lost in her spell
_ _ [Abm] Murder and lies, deceit and disguise [Dbm] was a [Eb] song of sweet [Abm]
Jezebel
_ Like a siren of the sea she sang it to me [Dbm] and each note was calling my name
[Abm] And the harder I fought the closer I got [Dbm] to standing [Eb] in that red [Abm]-hot flame
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faint morning glow [Eb] through a dusty window [Dbm]
washed over me [Abm] like a flood
_ [E] And the song of a [Eb] sparrow came straight as an [Db] arrow and that [Dbm] guitar red [Eb] as blood
_ [E] There was fear and surprise [Gb] in those cold, sharp eyes [Abm] as I reached [E] for sweet [Ab] _ [E] Jezebel
And the flames leapt higher as straight in the fire [Eb] I threw that guitar back to hell
I threw that guitar back to hell _ _
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_ _ And a holy scream cut through my dream and I woke with my head on the [Ab] dash
[Eb] I cast out a smoke from the rain that had choked the fire that flamed from the crash
_ [Abm] I jumped from my seat [Gb] away from that heat [Dbm] and kneeled on that [Db] rain-soaked ground
[A] _ [Ab] I prayed till I [Eb] cried till the fear in me died and [E] on [Eb] that lonely road I was found
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ Well [Ebm] never again will I [B] be taken in [Dbm] by the stranger in the night
_ [Abm] I take a pipe, an arrow and the song of a sparrow leads me [Eb] straight into the arms [Abm] of the light
_ [E] But sometimes in the dark [Gb] I see the eyes of a shark [Abm] and I'm lost in a dream for a [E] spell _
Before I can wake I eat devil's food [Eb] cake and hear again sweet Jezebel
_ I hear again [Abm] sweet _ [E] _ Jezebel
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