Eyolf Østrem

F#m          A             E        C#m
Crickets are chirpin', the water is high,
          F#m         A            E            F#m
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry.
F#m         A     E       C#m
Window wide open, African trees
F#m       A                E         F#m
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze.
      E
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
    F#m           A          E          F#m
She gone with the man in the long black coat.

Somebody seen him hangin' around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town.

          C                   C/e
There's a whole lot of people suffering tonight
            F                   C/e F
from the disease of conceit
                    D/f#
Whole lot of people struggling tonight
         F/g
from the disease of conceit
Am                   C/g     F                 C
Comes right down the highway straight down the line
Am             C/g                 F             C
Rips into your senses through your body and your mind
         D/f#           C/g
Nothing about it that's sweet
    F/g           C
The disease of conceit.

A
When did you leave heaven?
D                      Dm7
How could they let you go?
A                    F#
How's every thing in heaven?
Bm7         E
I'd like to know.

A
Why did you trade heaven?
D                     Dm7
For all these earthly things?
A                                F#
Where on earth did you hide your halo?
Bm7           E          A
Where did you lose your wings?

          A7
Have they missed you?
                 D
Can you get back in?
     B7                (E)
If I kiss you would it be a sin?

A
Well the woman that I love she got a hook in her nose

Her eye brows meet she wears second hand clothes
    D
She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop
  A
I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop.
    D               A
You know I love her yeah I love her
E                                        A
I'm in love with the ugliest girl in the world.

If I ever lose her I will go insane
I go half crazy when she calls my name
When she says "ba-ba-ba-ba-baby I l'-l'-love you
There ain't nothing in the world that I wouldn't do.

G    F    C    G

G        F           C         G
Stake my future on a hell of a past
G            F           C         G
Looks like tomorrow is a coming on fast
G        F              C      G
Ain't complaining about what I got
G           F         C       G
Seen better times but who has not.

Silvio silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know.

Honest as the next jade rolling that stone
When I come and knockin' don't throw me no bone
I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home

    G                     C/g  G
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you
     C/g               G
Look away, you rollin' river
    C/g                   G
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you
     G           C/g    G
Look away, we're bound away
 G/b       C    /b /a G
Across the wide Missouri.

Now the Missouri is a mighty river
Look away, you rollin' river
Indians camp along her border
Look away, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri.

Well, a white man loved an Indian maiden
Look away, you rollin' river
With notions his canoe was laden
Look away, we're bound away

A       (A7)
Look who's back in town

Ain't nobody but Sally Sue Brown
D7
All you boys better run for cover
       E
If you don't a-wanna be a broken hearted lover.

A
See her in that very tight skirt

Got what it takes just to make you hurt
D7
Don't be deceived by those big bright eyes
          E
Prefer to treat her nasty and low down lies.

D
Makes no difference where she's been
A
I know Sal's been doin' them things again
D
Breaking hearts up and down the line
    E
Like she broke this heart of mine.

A

            E          Esus4       E
I wandered again to my home in the mountain
                                            B     B7
Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free
                E
I looked for my friends but I never could find them
                      B                 E
I found they were all rank strangers to me.

                          Esus4
Ev'rybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger
                                      B     B7
No mother or dad not a friend could I see
                 E
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces

Tabbed in A (capo 1st fret, original key Bb major)