Prine John - Bruised Orange guitar chord

Date: 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.