John Prine - Picture Show guitar chord

Picture Show

written by John Prine

from the album "The Missing Years"

tabbed 6/18/05

NOTE: I'm sure about most of it, but there are a couple grey areas. Corrections welcome.

INTRO: G

G C G

A young man from a small town with a very large imagination

G/B D

Lay alone is his room with his radio on, looking for another station

G C G

When the static from the mouthpiece gave way to the sound below

D G

James Dean went out to Hollywood and put his picture in a picture show

D G

James Dean went out to Hollywood and put his picture in a picture show

CHORUS:

G

And it's Oh Daddy get offa your knees

C G

Mama why'd you have to go

G/B

Your Darlin Jim is out on a limb

D G

I put my picture in a picture show whoa-oh

D G

My picture in a picture show

Hamburgers Cheeseburger, Wilbur and Orville Wright

John Garfield is the afternoon, Montgomery Cift at night

When the static hit the mouthpiece it gave way to the sound below

James Dean went out to Hollywood and put his picture in a picture show

CHORUS

SOLO (VERSE chords)

A Mocca Man in a wigwam sitting on a reservation

With a big black hole in the belly of his soul waiting on an explanation

While the white man sits on his fat can and takes pictures of the navajo

Everytime he clicks his Kodak pics he steals a little bit of soul

Everytime he clicks his Kodak pics he steals a little bit of soul

CHORUS

SOLO

G C G

A young man from a small town with a very large imagination