Chords for Tom T-Bone Stankus: Existential Blues.mp4

Hey man, what are you really into, huh? _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ The elusive butterfly has just chip-toed past my [Bm] door.
My [E] buddy likes the Yankees, she says,
[Am] Hey T-Bone, what's the score?
And I say, well, Ranji got 1-1-3 and [E]
25 in 6-2-4.
Is it left wing, really?
Pinko?
Colonel [Em] Sanders?
What a [A] whore.
You [D] ask so many questions, [Am] what answer should I choose?
[E] Is it schizoid paranoia or [D] just existential [Am] blues?
[A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ The amenities of life have been chasing my soul,
and my mind is transcendental, and I'm losing all control.
And I'm sinking in the quagmire of illusions and throw.
I cry out, my name is T-Bone, as a hot dog digs a hole.
[D] You ask so many questions, [A] what answer should I [Em] choose?
Is it Plato's heebie-jeebies or just [Am] existential blues?
[A] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ Sailing, sailing.
[E] _ What is [B] illusion or what is [A] truth? _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ Sailing, _ _ sailing.
_ _ [G] Over the _ [E]
existential [A] blues.
[D] _ God bless _
[Am] _ America _ [Gb] and old [B] glory tea.
_ _ [D] May she always [Am] wave for us with [E] the red, white [E] and existential blues. Hey!
[Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Existential blues.
Hey!
[E] You can do what you want, play off my existential blues. _
I really swear, existential [Am] blues. _ _
[G] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ I was on a quest.
Walking down the road when [A] the angel died.
I was walking down the road, I was looking for the truth of life,
and I came across all these little people, [A] little people, little people all around me.
They looked at me and said, hey mister, are you tall?
I said, yes I'm tall, but who are you, where are you little wonder?
They looked at me with their big red bloodshot eyes and said,
[C] We are lollipop [G] kids, lollipop kids.
[C] _ _ We are [F] lollipop _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] kids.
I said, [Am] hey, _ _ hey weird [A] little wonders, I'm on a quest.
Walking down the road when the angel died.
[Am] I said, hey kids, I'm looking for the truth of life.
Where do I go, who do I see?
Slow [A] down mister.
In order to find the truth of life, one must see the wizard.
I said, [Bb] the [A] wizard?
_ _ _ Well, where's this wizard old wise one live?
They said, you see the big [B] green glow in the dark [A] house up on the hill?
I said, yes I see the big green glow in the dark house up on the hill.
There's a big dark forest between me and the big green glow in the dark house up on the hill.
A little old lady on a Hoover vacuum cleaner going,
Ow, get [F] your hands off me you pretty, you little dog.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ I'm a little dog, [E] so I know.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gb] _
Such predicaments I must forge ahead.
[G] Walking down the road when the angel died.
[Am] I was finding the truth of life.
I said, but you know kids, [G] I can handle the big green glow in the dark house [Am] up on the hill.
I can handle a dark forest, I can handle the little old lady.
But it's a very strange road you're sending me down.
[C] I've seen yellow stripes in the middle of a road before, but kids, never quite that wide.
Alright, tighten your shorts pilgrim and sing like the duke.
All the yellow, come on, all the yellow, anyway, shit.
All the yellow, [D] because, _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ because, because, [A] because, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The road was even littered, the water was. _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, I got a little bit tired of walking down the road when the [G] angel died. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ A [E] little bit tired of walking down this old blinding yellow road,
so I pulled my little tired body off the little rest [Am] area
and lo and behold there's a little field and little red flowers out there.
And it _ _ smells so good.
_ I was [E] getting pretty tired and it smells so good.
_ And I figured well, I'll just [Em] stretch out in this little field.
Poppy, poppy, poppy, poppy, poppy.
Yeah, yeah, a strange dream, man, you know. _
[E] A little flit of flowers that smell awfully good and I was very tired.
And you [Am] always just gonna have to wait, man,
because I'm just gonna [N] stretch out again in this little field.
Poppy, poppy, poppy, poppy.
Oh, God, Dorothy, _ _ Dorothy, Dorothy.
Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy.
Dorothy's been copping a few [A] of these, man. _
_ Along [Ab] came this old man in a green Eldorado II,
screeched to a halt, [E] a little short man with a big red nose,
who was toking a bottle of Yukon, Jack,
strolled up to me and said, hey, son.
I said, old man, don't bother me.
He _ _ _ said, T-bone.
I said, wait a minute, this man knows my name.
He must be _ the wizard. _
_ [Am] You must be the wizard.
_ [D] _
_ The wizard of alls.
_ [E]
Why have you come to haunt me?
[Am] _ The wizard of alls.
I [E] said, oh, is it a wise one I have been on a [C] quest?
Walked down [G] the road with A.J.
We _ [C] had a lot of kids. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Tired poppies, poppies, poppies, [Gb] poppies.
A _ little bit, [A] I've been through hell.
He said, hey, son, slow down, relax.
I said, [E] but wizard, oh, why is it I've come so far to find the truth of life?
He says, hey, son, slow down, [F] relax.
I said, to tell you the truth, son.
I said, wizard, that's what I've come to find is the truth.
He said, no, no, no, son, you [E] got me all wrong.
_ To tell you the truth, son, how can I tell you this?
I've been in this field of poppies a long time myself,
and I've come to find, son, that the only truth in life
is right here [B] in this bottle.
I said, wizard.
He said, no, truly, [Am] son, in [Bm] fact, I'd rather have this bottle in front of me
than [Em] a frontal _ lobotomy.
[E] _ _
_ [A] than a frontal lobotomy.
How profound is [E] it?
_ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Some [E] girl with psychic powers, she said,
T-Bone, what's your sign?
I blink and answer, neon.
I thought I'd blow her mind.
[A] _
She's reading Moby Dick [E] by some fruitcake named Herman.
She's chomping on an aqua.
Shvazda, that's just really joyman.
[D] You ask so many questions.
[A] What answer should I choose?
[E] Is this really [G] Bill Montana or just [Am] existential blue?
_ _ [C] Really Bill Montana?
[A] _
_ Is [C] this Plato's [A] _ EBGBs?
_ Is this [C] good-for-your-paranoia?
_ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [Am] Existential blue. _
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