John Prine - Donald and Lydia guitar chord

By John Prine

Song : Donald And Lydia (Mod.not to slow 3/4 timing)

C F C

Small town bright lights Saturday night,

D7 G7

Pin balls and pool halls flashing their lights

C F C

Making change behind a counter in a penny arcade,

G7 C

Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray (spoken) Lydia

F C D7 G7

Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat, behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat

C F C

She read romance magazines up in her room

G7 C

And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon

(Chorus)

G7 F C G7 C

But dreaming just comes natural like the first breath from a baby

C7 F C G7 C

Like sunshine feeding daisies, Like the love hidden deep in your heart

C F C

Bunkbeds shaved heads Saturday night

D7 G7

A ware house of strangers with sixty watt lights

C F C G7 C

Staring though the ceiling just wanting to be, lay a one of to many a young PFC (spoken) Donald

C F C

There were spaces between Donald and what ever he said

D7 G7

Strangers had forced him to live in his head

C F C

He envisioned the details of romantic scenes after midnight in the stillness of

G7 C

the barrack's latrine

(repeat chorus)

C F C D7 G7

Hot love, cold love, no love at all, a portrait of guilt is hung on the wall

C F C G7 C

Nothing is wrong, nothing is right, Donald and Lydia made love that night (spoken) Love

G7 C F C

They made love in the mountains , they made love in the streams

D7 G7

They made love in the valleys , they made love in their dreams

C F

But when they were fininshed , there was nothing to say

C G7 C C7

'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away

(repeat chorus)