A plastic shovel, soft sweaty children far from home
On vacation not unlike your very own

And the captain howdy lit upon my shoulder
And he left me with sulphur and rooms full of headaches
I fell in with snakes in the poisoned ranks of strangers
Please send me more yellow birds for the dim interior

Will my pony recognise my voice in hell?
Will he still be blind, or do they go by smell?
Will you promise not to rest me out at sea
But on a fiery river boat that’s rickety?

I’ll never find my pony along the rolling swell
A muddy river or a lake would do me well
With hints of amber sundowns and moody thunderstorms
A sunken barge’s horns, with the cold rusty bells

[D/F#]
[D/F#]

I got sun[D/F#]burnt waiting for the jets to land

Surplus p[D/F#]eople with hairy little hands

Can it bo[D/F#]ys and strike up the army band

I got sun[D/F#]burnt waiting for the jets

How did it feel?

How did it feel?

I can'[D/F#]t seem to see through solid marble eyes

[D/F#]

Firey pia[D/F#]nos washed up on a foggy coast

Squeeky litt[D/F#]le organs have given up the ghost

Fry them[D/F#] up and cure the piano birds

There’s c[D/F#]reeky little organs burning on the coast

How did it feel?

How did it feel?

I can'[D/F#]t seem to breathe with a rusted little heart

I can'[D/F#]t seem to see through solid marble eyes

[D/F#]
[D/F#]
[D/F#]
[D/F#]

If you save, your wisdom teeth

Would you burn your Christmas tree

He got dragged by a donkey, through the dirt and the myrtle

G A D (riff as above)
He was once a little fat baby

Did you lose, your ?fatty in the path?

Did you make, the city slickers laugh?

He got dragged by a donkey, through the glass and the myrtle

He was once a little fat baby

Orchestral Part (probably wrong!)

Bm Bbm D C# Em Bm F#7 F#7 F Em7 F# G

Did you burn your wisdom teeth?

Did you save your Christmas tree?

He got dragged by a donkey through the switches and the myrtle

He was once a little fat baby

Outro:

Bb A Ab G D

INTRO:
bar of drums
electric solo over G Am C x2 of:
e 3 8 3
B 1 3 5 8 0 0 1 3 5 8


VERSE 1:
Possible simple verse lead:
e 3 2 1 0


With rocks in my dress
And smoke in my hair
I walked into a lake
To get some sleep down in there.

CHORUS 1:
Possible simple chorus lead:
e 2 3 5 7 12

Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?

SOLO 1 over G Am C of:
B 0 0 1 3 5 8
G 9 7 5 (as 2nd part of intro)

VERSE 2:
With minnows in my belly
And deep in my veins
The breath-robbin’ lightning
Was making diamonds of rain

CHORUS 2:
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?

SOLO 2 over G Am C of:
B 1 3 5 (as first part of intro)

MIDDLE 8:
[no lead, suggest quiet strum of D and Am chords]
Dreamed I was born on a mountain
On the moon where nothing grows or ever rots
I dreamed that I had me a daughter
Who was mag-nif-icent as a horse

CHORUS 3A + B:
[no obvious lead]
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?

CHORUS 4A + B:
lead part based on bit of a scale:
e 2 7


Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come to comfort me?
Won’t you come?

OUTRO
D G Am to fade