Bleu Edmondson - And The Band Plays On guitar chord

And The Band Plays On

By Bleu Edmondson

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

Capo 2

Chords relative to capo

C#m A

She hums a song she can’t remember

C#m Ab7 Ab7sus

The music lives but the words are dead

C#m A

The song went out in late November

C#m A B A B

It’s been 4 days since she’s been to bed

C#m A

She’s got a tattoo on the back of her neck

C#m A

Wears china red lipstick #3

C#m A

Stands by the jukebox smoking a cigarette

C#m A B A B

Watches the band as she drinks for free

Chorus:

A E B

But don’t you know everybody’s got a story

A

Might be a little better than yours

E B

Have you ever bled for the price of glory

A

Then what the hell are you livin’ for

E B

You sit and to listen to the music

A

But you don’t hear that song

E B

This old world spins a little faster

C#m

And the band plays on

Everybody stops to watch her move

She laughs just a little at a neon pane

The girls’s think she’s got somethin’ to prove

And all the boys wanna know her name

But the storybooks were wrong again

And the songs on the radio lie

She weeps for who’s she been

But nobody hears her cry

Chorus

She’s getting’ high back in the alley

Standing’ in the pourin’ rain

The nights have always been just a little too hard

And don’t you know it helps ease the pain

Chorus

Chorus