Chords for The Pilgrim - Chapter 33

_ _ _ I started writing this song about Chris Gantry,
ended up writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash, _ _ _ Norman
Norbert, Funky Donnie Fritt, Billy Swan, Bobby Newarth,
Jerry Jeff Walker, and Paul Sebel,
_ _ and Ramblin' Jack Elliott had a lot to do with it. _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
wearing [C] yesterday's misfortunes like [G] a smile. _
[C] Once he had a future full of money, love, [Em] and dreams,
[A] which he spent like they was going [D] out of style. _
[G] And he keeps right on a change, for the better or the worse,
[C] searching [D] for a shrine he's never [G] found,
_ never [C] knowing if believing [G] is a blessing or a curse,
[C] or if a going up [D] was worth a [G] coming down. _ _
[C] He's a poet, and he's a picker.
[G] He's a prophet, and he's a pusher.
[D] He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem [G] when he's stoned.
[C] He's a walking contradiction, [G] part of the truth
and part of the fiction.
[D] Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way [G] back home.
_ _ [A] _ _ He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
[D] and he's trading in tomorrow [A] for today,
_ _ _ [D] running from his devil's [A] lord and reaching [F#m] for the stars,
[B] losing all the love [E] along the way.
But [A] if this world keeps right on turning,
for the better or the worse, and [D] all he ever
[E] gets is older [A] and around, _ [D] from the rocking of the cradle
[A] to the rolling of the [D] hearse, the going [E] up
was worth [A] coming down.
_ [D] He's a poet, and he's a picker.
[A] He's a prophet, and he's a pusher.
[E] He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when [A] he's stoned.
[D] He's a walking contradiction, [A] part of the truth
and part of the fiction.
[E] Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way [A] back home. _ _
[E] There's a lot of wrong directions on that lonely way.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _