Chords for Tom Rush - Urge for Going

[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ I first met Johnny in this old club [A#] in Detroit, _ Michigan, a [B] place called the Chessman. _
_ _ You know [G] the Chessman? _ _
_ _ _ Oh, my God.
[D#] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] There was this weird little man, [B] it was run by a guy named [E] Warren Woodenbell, _ and he was
one [A#] of the weirdest people I've ever met, [F#] and that's fancy. _ _
He was a chess genius, [Gm] and he was no good at anything else.
_ And he opened this [A#] club to be a place to go and [F#m] play chess, and somehow it turned into
a [F] music room, and it [B] was just unequipped to deal with that.
I mean, you know [D] what I mean.
_ _ [B] _ _ Perpetually bewildered.
[F#] _ _ _ [D] He was married to this [A] woman named Ethel, _ and I showed [A#] up one year and he said, Tom,
did you hear what [A] Ethel did to me?
[G] I said, no, [A] Marty, what happened?
[E]
She died.
_ [A#] I said, TikTok, she [B]
died.
_ [D] I said, well, [B] I'm sorry she did that to you in the winter sleep.
[D] _ _ But the thing is, I showed up a year later [G] and he _ remarried another woman named Ethel.
_ [B] _
_ Just, I think that's weird. _ _
_ I don't know that many women they date.
[D] _
_ [B] I guess [G] Detroit would be the place to look for that.
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] Johnny came in one night, and [D#] she was brand [B] new to town.
And she had just come down from Toronto with her husband [A#] Chuck.
_ [F#] And we asked [B] Maury if she could do a [F#] guest set so I could hear some of [B] her stuff.
_ And she [D#] got up and did [A#] four songs and just blew me away.
[B] _ _ _
_ _ _ And this is one of the songs she did that very first night. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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I woke up today in town. _ _
_ _ [E] The bus perched on the town.
[B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ It hovered in the frozen sky.
[A] _ _ _ _
_ It got all summer [F#] down.
_ _ [Bm] _
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[E] _ _ When the [D] sun turns trader cold,
_ _ [E] _ _ _ And shivering [D] trees are standing
In a naked [F#]
row. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ I get the urge for [A] gold, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And I've never seen it [B] count. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And [E] I get the urge for [B] gold,
_ When _ [E] the metal bridge is [B] turning rocky. _ _
[E] _ And summertime _ is a [B] falling down,
_ _ _ _ Winter [A] _ grows [B] again. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
had a girl [A] in Sunday, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ With summer-colored [B] skin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And not another man in town,
[C#m] _ _ _
[A] _ With a [B] darling's heart could win. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ And when the leaves [D] fell,
Shroomed and died.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ And bullet [D] winds,
_ Did rub their faces [F#] in the snow. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ She got the urge for [A] gold, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And I had to let her go.
[B] _
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[E] And she got the urge for [B] gold,
_ _ When [E] the [A] metal [E] grass is [B] turning. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ And summertime was a [B] falling down, _ _ _ _
_ [A] Winter grows [E] again.
[B] _ _
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And the warriors of [A] winter, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Give a cool [B] triumphant shout. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And all that stays has died,
_ _ [C#m] _ _
_ [A] _ And all that lives [B] is getting up.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ And you see the geese [D] in Chevron black,
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ Flapping their [D] necks and on, _ _
[F#] Before the snow. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
And they got the urge for [A] gold,
_ And _ _ they got the [B] wings to go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And [E] they got the urge [B] for gold,
_ _ When the metal [E] grass is [B] turning. _
_ _ _ [E] _ And summertime _ is a [B] falling down, _ _ _
_ Winter [A] _ grows [B] again.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ And I'll plant the [D] fire [A] with kinden,
_ _ _ _ _ _ And pull the blankets to [B] my chin. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And I'll lock the babe when winter out,
[A] _
_ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ And bolt my [B] wand and grenade. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ I'd like to [D] call back summertime,
_ _ _ [E] _
_ And have her [D] stay, _ _
For just [B] another month [F#] or so. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] And she's got the urge for [A] gold, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] And I guess she'll have [B] to go. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] And she gets the urge for [B] gold, _ _
When the [A] [E] metal grass is [B] turning brown.
_ _ _ [E] And all her empires are [B] falling down, _
_ _ _ _ [A] Winter grows [B] again. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And [A] I get the [E] urge for [B] gold, _ _
When the [A] metal [E] grass _ [B] is turning down,
_ _ _ And [E] summertime _ is a [B] falling down.
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[E] _ And I guess she'll have to go.
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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