John Prine - Bruised Orange guitar tab

e: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:22:16 -0500

From: Ray Allis

Subject: CRD:p/prine_john/bruised_orange.crd

BRUISED ORANGE

by John Prine

interpreted by Ray Allis

G

My heart's in the ice house

2) I've been brought down to zero

come hill or come valley

2) pulled out and put back there

C

like a long ago Sunday

2) I sat on a park bench

when I walked through the alley

2) kissed the girl with the black hair

G

on a cold winters morning

2) and my head shouted down

D

to the church house

2) to my heart

G

just to shovel some snow

2) you better look out below

I heard sirens on the train tracks

2) Well it ain't such a long drop

howl naked , gettin nuder

2) don't stammer, don't studder

C

an alter boy had been hit

2) from the diamonds in the sidewalk

by a local comuter

2) to the dirt in the gutter

G

just from walking with his back turned

2) you'll be carrying those bruises

D

to a train

2) to remind you

G G7

that was coming so slow

2) wherever you go

(CHORUS)

C

You can gaze out the window

get mad and get madder

G

throw your hands in the air

and say what does it matter

D

but it don't do no good

C

to get angry

G G7

so help me I know

C

for a heart stained with anger

grows weak and grows bitter

G

you become your own prisoner

as you watch yourself sit there

D

wrapped up in a trap

C

of your very own

G

chain of sorrow

3) (Repeat first verse and chorus)

Please send corrections or suggestions.