Chords for Max Stalling "Little Apone" LIVE on The Texas Music Scene

[Bb] Okay, [Gm] here's one for you.
[C] What do you get when you mix [C] western swing [Bb] and epic science fiction?
[C] Give [Gm] up?
It's a brilliant little number [Dm] from Max Dahling [C] called Little Apone.
Well, let Max explain it to you.
[Gm] _ This song started _ [A] with just [Cm] some scrambled egg lyrics, just [Bb] sitting on the couch kind [G] of doodling around on the guitar.
And I came up with [Dm] this phrase, Little Apone.
I was like, what is Little Apone?
[Gm] And then the only Apone that I could come up with was [Dm] the character from the movie Aliens.
[G] _
If you're familiar with the 1980s science fiction classic [Fm] Sigourney Weaver II in the [C] series.
And [G] then I thought to myself, [C] why shouldn't somebody [Gm] write a song about that guy?
[G] But it's also [Bb] about a songwriter [C] or a creative person struggling with the need to write something and create [E] something new.
So it's supposed to kind of operate on two levels.
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] Little Apone, [Em] Little Apone, couldn't know his destiny.
[D] Little Apone, Little [Em] Apone, sat upon his daddy's knee.
[D] Little Apone, [C] Little Apone, look [Bm] into my eyes and see.
[D] Little Apone, Little [C] Apone, you [Bm] can't know your destiny.
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_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ Little [Bm] Apone, Little Apone, [Em] grew up strong as he could be.
Little [Bm] Apone, [E] Little Apone, [Em] left his home and family.
[Bm] Little Apone, Little [Em] Apone, wanted to see all he could see.
Little [G] Apone, going [C] to Colonial [Em] Marine Infantry. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Bm] Wherever they'll have a [D] banquet, they'll never step to [G] take a parade.
_ [Bm] They'll never pay a check, [D]
that's a [G] fortune you just made.
[C] _ [Bm] And if you got a faggot [D] man, you just think of [G] something to [C] say.
Cause every meal's a banquet, [D] they'll never step to take a [G] parade.
_ [B] There's not a scribe [C] to trust me a bit, [G] Apone had experience.
He showed him a task he didn't ask, he just did it with confidence.
[D] And only I know, a [C] sergeant of Apone, [B] probably the [D] best there'll never be.
Judas and God went [Em] out to dodge, and [G] they didn't save for humanity.
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_ [G] _ _ [C] Wherever [Bm] they'll have a banquet, [D] they'll never step to take [G] a parade.
[C] They'll never [Bm] pay a check, [D] that's a fortune you [G] just made.
[C] And if you [Bm] got a faggot man, [D] you just think of something [G] to say.
[C] Cause every [Bm] meal's a banquet, [D] they'll never step to take [G] a parade.
_ _ [B] And everybody wants to know what's next to [Gb] your stand.
And they're kind of perplexed [A] there's an answer, but it won't [E] come with much.
_ [B] And the clock is really ticking down, and [E] you sure do need an idea now.
[A] Close your eyes, _ close your [F] eyes, _ _ and take a look around.
[Gm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
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_ [G] _ _ Now [D] little Apone, [Em] little Apone, [G] didn't come home with the rest to see.
[D] Little Apone, [Am] little [G] Apone, had a date with his destiny.
[D] Little Apone, little [Em]
Apone, he [G] lives on in history.
Sergeant [Bm] Apone got [Em] this song, [G] and an M-O-V-I-E.
[C] Wherever [Bm] meals a banquet, [D] they'll never step to take [G] a parade.
[C] They'll never [Bm] pay a check, [D] that's a fortune you [G] just made.
[C] And if you [Bm] got a faggot man, you [D] just think of something [G] to say.
[C] Cause every [Bm] meal's a banquet, they'll [D] never step to take a [G] parade.
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