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- As The Crow Flies
- Lake Placid Blues
- Steamy Windows
- Stockholm Blues
As The Crow Flies
Em
As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you
As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you
B7
Yeah, but since I don't have wings
A
Em
Well I can't get home as fast as I want to
Well you don't know, baby
How I've missed your sweet caress
Well you don't know, mama
How I've missed your sweet caress, oh yeah
Yeah, now when I'm in your lovin' arms
Oh, I'm at my very best
In a dream last night
Well I heard you call my name
In a dream last night
Well I heard you call my name
Yeah, I took it as an omen
And I jumped on the very first freight train
As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you, oh no no
As the crow flies, mama
Well I ain't too far from you
Yeah, but since I don't have wings
Well I can't get home as fast as I want to
Lake Placid Blues
Am
G
Am
At the time I was too young for the meaning
Am
G
Am
But it's become much clearer through the years
Am
G
F
We gathered round the boy in his army clothes
Dm
Em
Am
Said goodbye and his mother shed her tears
Every day she watched for the postman
But the long awaited letter was overdue
It's not the silence that makes you crazy
It's the sound of a heart breaking in two
F
G
Am
Then it came across the ocean
F
G
Am
It was hard to understand the awful news
F
G
Am
I don't know why I still remember
Dm
Em
Am
I guess it's just the Lake Placid Blues
I turned 18 and left that part of the country
Went down on the Padre Island coast
Of all the hard times I still remember
The repossession of the guitar hurt the most
The paupers stood in line outside the mission
And I huddled there beside them in the rain
A priest came to the door with empty eyes
I could see he no longer felt their pain
Some were searchin' for forgiveness
And others only wanted food
I needed more than I could ask for
There is no comfort with the Lake Placid Blues
It's hard to find good friends in a lifetime
You can usually count 'em on one hand
I shivered by the fire and the dawn was breakin'
And I scattered his ashes on the sand
And the silver cranes came over in formation
In a sacred manner they flew
And I will always remember
The sky, the Lake Placid Blues
Steamy Windows
E
I was thinking about parking the other night
G
A
E
We was out on a back road
E
Me and my woman was just gettin' right
G
A
E
All systems on overload
The radio blasting in the front seat
Turning out the music fine
We was snuggled up in the back seat
Making up for lost time
E
D
A
E
Steamy windows, zero visibility
E
D
A
E
Steamy windows, coming from the body heat
You can wine and dine with a woman all night
With good intent
But there's something about a confrontation on a back road
Breaks down the defense
Steamy windows, zero visibility
Steamy windows, coming from the body heat
There's a sound outside the front door
And I know it's just the wind
But it makes her snuggle up just a little bit closer
And it starts things happening again
Steamy windows, ain't nobody can see
Steamy windows, coming from the body heat
Steamy windows, zero visibility
Steamy windows, coming from the body heat
E
Steamy windows
Steamy windows
Stockholm Blues
G
Well, I woke up Monday morning
D
Wondering if Tuesday would be this bad
G
Well, I woke up Monday morning
D
Wondering if Tuesday would be this bad
A7
Yeah, and I laid there thinking about last night
G
F
D
And all the bad whiskey I had
There were ants in the sugar bowl
And weevils in my cornmeal
There were ants in the sugar bowl
Weevils in my cornmeal
My old lady said, let's sleep late
I said, honey, I believe I will
Yeah, and I went all the Stockholm
Just to see what they were doing there
Yeah, and I went all the Stockholm
Just to see what they were doing there
And if we hadn't flew out that snowstorm
We'd be there till January
