John Prine

John Prine - Leave The Lights On guitar tab

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From: booker@elvice.ib.stortek.com (Sam Booker)

Subject: PRO:leave_the_lights_on by john prine

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 14:36:01 -0700 (MST)

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{t:Leave The Lights On}

{st:(John Prine/Howie Epstein/Phil Parlapiano/Joe Romersa)}

{st:From the John Prine album "Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings" ( Oh Boy Records, 1995)}

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# Chords by Sam Booker (booker@elvice.stortek.com)

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[E]Feeling kind of boney

On the telephoney

Talking to Marconi

Eating Rice-A-Roni

[A]Nominated for Tony

For acting like a phoney

[E]Watching Twilight Zoney

On my forty-two inch Sony

Th[B7]is is just a long song

It ain't no poem

Le[E]ave the lights on till you baby gets home.

[E]It's like sitting in the kitchen

When the music's really bitchin'

Your nose it starts to itchin'

As you count your old age pension

D[A]id I forget to mention

The ride that I was hitchin'

To the al[E]uminum convention

I had such good intentions

Ke[B7]ep you cotton pickin' fingers off my song poem

And le[E]ave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Le[E]ave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Leave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Do[A]n't forget your toothbrush

Your hairbrush and your comb

L[E]eave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Got a b[B7]ig ol' dog

A chrome crowbar

I k[E]eep that mother humper in the back seat of my car

[E] [A] [E] [B7] [A] [E]

[E]Me and Billy Shakespeare

Stepped out to get a root beer

We sat together so near

People thought we were queer

Pun[A]ctuated by the big scare

We joined the Air Force right there

To d[E]efend our country first class

Who couldn't give a rat's ass

Do[B7]n't you tell me that the White House is my home

Le[E]ave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Le[E]ave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Leave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Do[A]n't forget your toothbrush

Your hairbrush and your comb

Leave the lights on till you baby gets home.

Got a b[B7]ig ol' dog

A big iron bar

I k[E]eep that mother humper in the back seat of my car

[E]It's like kissing Greta Garbo

With a mouth full of marbles

[A]

Like tr[E]ying to cash a paycheck

In the middle of a train wreck [B7]

Le[E]ave the lights on

Leave the lights on

[E]Like trying to get aroundo

In a car made of bondo [A]

Like sp[E]eaking German lingo

To a dog named Dingo[B7] - Plotz!!

[E]Leave the lights on

Leave the lights on

[E]Like a french-fried quesadilla

In a franchised pizzeria

[A]

[E]Leave the lights on

Leave the lights on

[B7]

A big iron bar

I k[E]eep that mother humper in the back seat of my car

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