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[[Category:lyrics]][[category:songs]][[category:unrecorded]]Written sometime in the 1999-2001 timeframe; I can probably pin it down more accurately by going through my notebook.
[[Category:lyrics]][[category:songs]][[category:unrecorded]]Written sometime in the 1999-2001 timeframe; I can probably pin it down more accurately by going through my notebook.
==Lyrics==
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===Intro===
dramatic chords: A . . . E . . . G . . . Gb . . . Bm . .
 
===Verse 1===
{|
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| Bm  Gb<sup>7</sup> || Well I'm tryin' to find my way back home to my sainted Aunt Marie
|-
| A  E<sup>7</sup> || She was last seen in a comic book which did not belong to me
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| Bm  Gb<sup>7</sup> || Well she took me for an outlaw and I took her for a fool
|-
| A  E<sup>7</sup> || So I set sail on a cruise ship on a voyage 'cross a swimming pool
|}
 
Bm E G Bm
 
===Chorus 1===
{|
|-
| A E7 || Well don't say I'm only half insane, don't tell me that I'm wrong
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| G D || Everybody's up in arms, I'm just trying to belong
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| Bm A || If there's one thing that I've learned in life, I know it's kinda dumb
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| || You gotta stop {{faint|E<sup>7</sup>}} and smell the roadkill {{faint|F}}, don't forget {{faint|Gb}} where you are from
|}
 
Gb7...
 
===Verse 2===
:Well I thought that everything I thought was just as well as done
:So I went out without a doubt and tried to look for number one
:It came upon me slowly, so I got up and went
:It happened then, I don't know when, I got tied up in cement
 
Bm E G Bm
 
===Chorus 2===
 
::Well listen here, I don't know for sure, but it just seems so to me
::You're dead set on your reckoning, don't get caught too far at sea
::If there's one thing that I've learned, just stop and let me have my say
::You gotta stop and smell the roadkill, count your blessings every day
 
===solo verse===
E              B7
D              A
Bm            E
C    G        Gb-aug-7      Bm
 
===Bridge===
:I oftimes can remember
:Or at leastaways can't forget
:All the times we'd say that we got to get away
:And we haven't got one yet
:Wake up and smell the catfood
:You're living in a fool's pair a' shoes
:Sometimes when you ain't winning,
:Best thing to do is lose.
===Chorus 3===
:If there's one thing you done told me, and I knew it all along
:I may be insane, I might be to blame, but I'm the one that wrote this song
:If you're out riding shotgun when I come nosin' 'round
:Just stop and smell the roadkill, it's the best thing that I've found
 
===Outro===
CHORDS:    D A  Bm A  G  A  D  D
BASS LINE: D Db B  A  G  A  D  D
CHORDS:    D A  Bm A  G  Gb  Bm Bm
BASS LINE: D Db B  A  G  Gb  B  B

Revision as of 12:33, 6 April 2009

Written sometime in the 1999-2001 timeframe; I can probably pin it down more accurately by going through my notebook. sgG4iP vkoo7wvY5Xkfak7bf1Th

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