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Townes Van Zandt : The Late Great
1972

  1. No Lonesome Tune
  2. Sad Cinderella
  3. Fraulein
  4. Pancho And Lefty
  5. If I Needed You

No Lonesome Tune

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I ain't going to sing no lonesome tune
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Ah, babe, I'm a coming soon
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I cannot believe I stayed so long away
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But a man must look around
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You're the sweetest thing I've found
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All your lost high rollers are rolling home today Well, my Daddy said to me "Son, it's hard as you will see To find someone upon whom to rely In the kitchen, Mama sneezed And he grinned big as you please Said, "Bless you" and a tear come to his eye
Instrumental verse
I did decide that very day That I would like to live that way And now I know I just been wasting time It's with you that I should be And if you feel the same 'bout me Well I'm headed home along the straightest line Ain't going to sing no lonesome tune Ah, babe, I'm a coming soon I cannot believe I stayed so long away But a man must look around And you're the sweetest thing I've found All your lost high roller's rolling home today
Instrumental verses to fade

Sad Cinderella

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When the bandits have stolen your jewellery and gone
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And your crippled young gypsy has grown tall and strong
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And your dead misconceptions have proven you wrong
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Well then, princess, where you planning to turn to? When your magazine memory has spun you around And you realise your lovers were just painted clowns And outside your window you start hearing sounds Where they're building a cross for to burn you
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When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue
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Will you stop and decide that it's over? When your tear drops go sour and no longer fall To splash cross the virgin that lives down the hall And spends all her nights with an ear to your wall Well then, what will you have you can offer? When the fire dancers finish and leave you alone With nothing but embers and sacks full of stone That hang round your neck slicing through to the bone Will there be a place for your laughter? When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue Will you stop and decide that it's over? When your shattered illusions come a-tumbling home And all of your butchers you've nourished have grown And they're suddenly able to leave you alone And they run like slaves that are set free When your questions are answered and your pleading is done And your mind starts a-screaming that you ain't the one That once dwelled within you, will you turn, will you run? But, princess, will you come home and get me? When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue Will you stop and decide that it's over?

Fraulein

<Lawton Williams>
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Far across the deep blue waters, lives an old German's daughter
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On the banks of the old river Rhine
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There I loved her and left her, and I can't forget her
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Oh she was my pretty Fraulein
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Fraulein, Fraulein, walk down by the river
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Tonight when those stars start to shine
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By those same stars above you, well I'll swear that I love you
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Oh you are my pretty Fraulein
Instrumental verse
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When my memories wander, away over yonder
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To the one that I left behind
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In a moment of glory, a face comes before me
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The face of my pretty Fraulein
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Fraulein, Fraulein, walk down by the river
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Tonight when those stars start to shine
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By those same stars above you, but I'll swear that I love you
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Oh you are my pretty Fraulein

Pancho And Lefty

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Livin' on the road my friend
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Is gonna keep you free and clean
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And now you wear your skin like iron
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And your breath is hard as kerosene
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You weren't your mama's only boy
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Her favorite one it seems
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She began to cry when you said goodbye
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And sank to your dreams Pancho was a bandit boy His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match, you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dyin' word Oh but that's the way it goes All the Federales, they say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness I suppose Lefty he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down South Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they lay poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go There ain't nobody knows All the Federales they say We could have had him any day We only let him slip away Out of kindness I suppose The poets tell how Poncho fell And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers, it's true Save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do And now he's growin' old All the Federales, they say We could have had him any day They only let him go so long Out of kindness I suppose A few gray Federales, they say Could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness I suppose

If I Needed You

Capo:
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Instrumental verse x2
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If I needed you, would you come to me?
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Would you come to me and ease my pain?
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If you needed me, I would come to you
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I'd swim the seas for to ease your pain Well, in the night forlorn, oh, the morning's born And the morning shines with the lights of love And you will miss sunrise if you close your eyes And that would break my heart in two
Instrumental verse
The lady's with me now since I showed her how To lay her lily hand in mine Loop and Lil agree, she's a sight to see A treasure for the poor to find If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me and ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you I'd swim the seas for to ease your pain
Instrumental verse