Hurricane Season Chords by The Tom Russell Band

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_ _ Hurricane [Ab] season on the home front _ All the weak of heart are leaving [Bb] town _
[Ab] Well, baby, me ain't up to go just yet Maybe we'll just drink until [G] we drown _
Me, [C] I pressioned up [G] a pot of coffee _ Baby [C] puts the chain [G] across the door
[D] And pretty soon she's seeing things that I don't see
Like alligators on the bathroom floor _ _
[G] _ [C] Hurricane season [G] in the kitchen _ Baby [C] throws the eggs [G] against the wall
She [D] says, don't think I don't know what you've been up to, Jack
Well, that Puerto Rican slut lives down the hall _
[G] She told [C] me all about [G] it in the laundry room
She's folding her [C] goddamn see-through [G] underwear _ _
[Dm] She probably gave you some kind [C] of rare [Dm] tropical disease
Now I got it, you don't [A] even care _ _
_ [D] Like a hurricane
_ Hey, [G] _ _ what's your [D] name? _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] Are you Donna or Marie? _
[E] _ Are you [Em] Margaret [A] or Elaine? _ _
_ _ [G] Do you paint your toenails in [Gbm] the morning?
_ [Em] Yeah, fire engine [A] red or baby blue
_ [D] Then you roll downtown [Bm] in a whirlwind _ _ _ _
[G] Yeah, they ought to name a [A] hurricane for you
We [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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saw our bedroom set [Ab] floating down Piedmont Street
[N] Palm trees broken by the wind
So baby starts packing the essential things _
Diet pills, potato chips and gin
[Dm] _
[G] Next thing [C] I know we're [G] in a rowboat _
We're watching [C] our apartment [G] house go down
[D] And baby's got a jar of gin and tonics
She says, Christ, I hope the next-door neighbors drown
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Last time [C] I saw baby's in the [G] Red Cross store
She's trying to [C] find a dress that [G] she could wear
She [Dm] said, God protects the drunks and the adulterers
And he drowns everyone who says their prayer _
[G] Now every [C] time I drink a gin and [G] tonic _
I order up [C] an extra [G] slice of lime
[D] Yeah, cause that's the way my baby used to drink them
Back when she was wild [A] in her prime _ _
_ Like a [D] hurricane _ _
[G] Hey, _ what's your [D] name? _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] Are you Donna or Marie?
[Em] _ Are you Christine [A] or Elaine? _ _
_ _ _ [G] Do you paint your toenails [Gbm] every morning?
_ [Em] Yeah, fire engine red or [A] baby blue
[D] Then you roll downtown in [Bm] a whirlwind _ _ _ _
[G] Yeah, they ought to name a [Gbm] hurricane [A] for you _ _
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