Townes Van Zandt - Sanitarium Blues guitar chord

Sanitarium Blues

By Townes Van Zandt

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

11/6/2004

Capo 1

B F# E

The folks, they just can't take no more

B F# E

Throw you in the back seat, slam the door

B F# E

No stoppin' as down the road you go

G#m

Got not time to lose

Gigantic one way gate ahead

You're thinkin' man I'd as soon be dead

They decided to give you life instead

The sanitarium blues

Big ole nurse all dressed in white slaps you on a table in the middle of the night

Then he straps you down real tight

You're wonderin', what'd I do

They hose you down, make sure you're clean

Wrap you up in hospital green

Shoot you full of Thorazine

The sanitarium blues

Bridge:

E B F#

Could be a TB or maybe a tumor

E B F#

Eavesdropping on the doctors, listening to the rumors

E F#

Can't see your friends, hear the hum of the wheels

B F#

Hey my man, you know how it feels

E

Like the sanitarium blues

They upon some sunlit day they figure there's no need for you to stay

They're pretty sure you can't be cured so they send you on your merry way

You hit the pavement, hang around nobody's on the outside to be found

You're just tryin' to stay above the ground

You start to thinkin', what's the use?

The sanitarium blues