Bodie Currency
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Standard Tuning
CAPO 7
The Bone Daddy lifts his skull
from the piano lid to play—
lemme get a whiskey
and peach tea—
pistol on the table,
revolver in the holster,
—you ain’t gunna shoot me,
I’ve paid my drink fee.
Bodie Currency—
(Brown paper’s dead tree)
The deeds you’ve done for me,
or the ax to my family tree.
The rag time girl gets groovin’
to the keys played by bony
phelanges. Whiskey down,
the cards are
hint of G E
free and the game is
cheap. But Jimmy always
carrys on, ya see? Losin’
gals’ he pulls his gun on me—
Bodie Currency—
(Red paper's blood money)
The deeds you’ve done for me,
or the ax to my family tree.
Bodie Currency—
(Red paper’s blood money)
The deeds you’ve done for me,
or the ax to my family tree.
Bridge:
(Clark Kent Bridge:
Hey boy I see you sittin' there
drink your whiskey down
But Bodie Currency ain't of value in my town
So I better see you get on up and go grab your things
Don't you return until the tumbleweed sings...)
(JoJo Bridge:
Hey boy I know you been heckled here and there?
but Bodie Currency ain't of value everywhere
?When cows go dry?
and the Sherrif gets his lonely blues
?you might wanna move along ?just like the tumbleweed does)
(Write your own character into the bridge of Bodie's ghost town!)
Tumbleweed
you’re smoking buddy.
The goods I’ve grown—I’ve paid
my fee. Bodie don’t
Remember no Bodie don’t remember
democracy,
the folk here
exchange
Bodie Currency—
(No Paper. No Tree.)
The deeds you’ve done for me,
or the ax to my family.
Bodie Currency—
(No Paper. No Tree.)
The deeds you’ve done for me,
or the ax to my family.