Telephone Road Chords by Rodney Crowell

_ _ _ Here is Dan Rather speaking directly from Galveston.
_ If evacuation of all islands and all coastal areas along Louisiana and the upper and central
Texas coast has not been completed, evacuation should be hastened before it is too late.
Every [F] precautionary measure should be taken now to protect life [C] and property against dangerous
[Bm] winds and tides.
As of the moment, Hurricane Carla is centered at a latitude of 26 miles. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Rain [Bm] came down in endless sheets [E] of thunder. _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Lightning bolts split pine trees [E] down to the roots. _
_ _ _ In [Abm] the shadow of the astrodome, _ [E] with a hurricane coming on strong, we [Abm] used to hit the streets
and go swimming in our [Gb] birthday suits.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ Skiing in a bar ditch [E] behind the moped, _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] 13 [Bm]
stitches on the corner of a [E] sardine can. _
_ _ _ We [Abm] were dead poor Houston _ kids, [E] our family living on _ skips.
[Abm] But we always had a nickel for the coming of the ice [Gb] cream man.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Mosquito truck blowing up _ _ [Abm] DDT, barefoot heathens running wild and free.
[E] Air raid buzzer at a noonday scream, [Dbm] living in [Gb] a dream on [E] telephone road.
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_ _ _ I used to love [Bm] them cherry cokes down at the princess [E] drive-in.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] And the cheeseburgers taste so good I like to [E] come untied. _
_ _ _ There's [Abm] a chimey berry tree I remember.
I [E] used to climb in and out of my window.
_ [Abm] The night I left was on the day before my grandma [Gb] died. _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ Sawdust spread out on the dance hall [Abm] floor.
_ Shoebox ripping at an all-hour roar.
[E] Farm ain't smiling at a ten-cent tip.
[Dbm] Living is [Gb] a trip on [E] telephone road.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ Magnolia garden van standing on the very [E] front row. _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and the killer putting on [Gb] a show. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] Sick chills rolling just barely off my [E] daddy's knee. _
_ _ _ When [Abm] those rockabilly rebels sent the devil running right [Gb] through me.
_ _ _ _ [B] A drop-in movie in the trunk of my [Abm] car.
A one-night sailor in an ice house bar.
[E] Spit-shine Charlie and opaque Lake Ville.
I dressed up with [Gb] tequila on [E] telephone road.
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_ _ _ _ [Abm] Telephone road.
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[B] _ _ _ _ [E] Telephone road.
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Barbecue and beer [Gb] on ice.
_ [Abm] A salty watermelon [Gb] _ slice.
[Abm] Out to little states of _ [Gb] paradise on telephone [E] _ _
road. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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