Chords for 12 O'Clock Whistle.wmv

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The air raid siren [C] at the high school blue
[G] _ Every weekday
[C] _ twelve o'clock [G] noon
[Em] dinner time people
[G] As if we didn't know [C] I guess the city fathers [G] like to [D] hear that [G] thing blow
The boys were chasing the city truck
[C] spraying DDT
[G] You kept the mosquitoes [C] down
That [G] _
_ [Em] stuff won't hurt you [D] none the neighbor lady'd say
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[C] _ _ [G] Encephalitis
[D] Now that can [G] ruin your day.
Granny was hanging out wash
Talking [C] _ across the [G] fence
Neighbor lady nodded
[C] Like it all made sense
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[Em] She's just gonna stay with him [D] till the kids are grown
[G] Fetch [C] _ me that clothespin [G] up off the ground.
Would you huh?
Won't you stay with me?
[C] Till the Sun goes down
[G] on that flat top mountain to [C] the west of town
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Won't you stay a while [C] I
Just don't see
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Why you must be?
_ [C] Won't you stay with me
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Had a cherry coke dripping on my [D] cowboy [G] clothes _ _
_ Riding down Scott Street [C] and that big white holes _
[Em] We're going through nigger town [D] honey.
Lock your doors _ _
[C] Course that's not what we're supposed [D] to call them [G] anymore _
We're going to the beauty shop, [C] it's not too [G] far
You can come inside or you can [C] just sit in the car
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[Em] No, you can't go with grandpa to [F#] the pasture [G] today
The [C] _ shipping [Gm] cabs and you [D] just get in the way
[G] _
Won't you stay with me?
[C] Till the Sun goes down
[G] On that flat top mountain to the [C] west of town
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Won't you stay a while I [C] just don't see
[G] Why you must be?
Leaving [C] won't you stay with [G] me? _
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We had fried okra
[C] black-eyed peas _
[G] Granny had her sacrament
[C] She was putting it in her tea
[G] _
[Em] Pull that screen door to home you're letting [D] in flies
Don't [G] _
[C] you know [G] nothing
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Yonder comes a pickup.
He's [C] coming down the street
[G] Run help and put the horses up
[C] So we can eat
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[Em] He's always late for dinner
[D] Lord he moves so [G] slow
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Twelve o'clock [G] whistle blue
[D] half an hour ago _
[G] Won't you stay with me?
[C] Till the Sun goes down
[G] on that flat top mountain
to [C] the west of town _
[G] Won't you stay a while [C] I just don't [G] see
Why you must be?
Leaving [C] won't you stay with [Em] me?
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