Artist – Martin Sexton

Tuning: EADGAE (low-to-high)

INTRO:

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This is the verse (play four times per verse):

hey little jail bait tell me your story

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LYRICS:
play intro

Hey little jail bait tell me your story
Let me bum a smoke and we can chat a while
I want to see you talk straight so let me hear your story
Before you get off and make your change

play 2nd line of intro

PRE-CHORUS
You see lately I’ve found that there’s hell going ‘round
And honey you’ve given one big chase to my strain

CHORUS
Talkin bout a woman who’s lost a lot of days in this life
Talkin bout a woman who just can’t say no
She needs another lover like she needs another dose in her blood
Talkin bout a woman who’s name is Candy
She’s so fine

She’s waiting on a back street line
A F#m6 Dsus2 A A/G# A7/G
Like a lost angel not long for this world

Don’t usually get emotional don’t usually show my veins she said
Only when I sing or when I’m making tracks
Sweatin’s just a mean way to show me where I am
And to tell me where I need to be

PRE-CHORUS
And through those eyes if she wore her disguise
I’d see through it and say come in from the rain girl the rain girl

CHORUS

Talkin bout a woman she loves me like a dog loves a bone
Talkin about a woman who just can’t let go
I need her as my lover like I need another hole in my head
I’m talkin about a woman I know Candy
She’s so fine

But she’s shaking on that back street line
A F#m6 Dsus2 A A/G# A7/G
Like a loose cannon ashamed to explode

A A/G# A7/G A(V)

CHORUS
ad-lib vocals

G Dsus2 A A/G# A7/G
When will I learn to let you go

A A/G# A7/G
You’re my Candy
A A/G# A7/G A(V)
You’re my lost angel not long for this world

CHORDS:
E 022100
F#m6 2x120x
Dsus2 xx0200
D xx0202
F# 2443xx
G 320003
A x02200
A(V) xx7605
A xxx909
A/G# xxx809
A7/G xxx709

Love is what I feel
When you walk into my living room
I fall head over heels
When you whisper in my ear[-]
But I did not know what to think
When I found your makeup
In my drawer and your things
Under my sink
But I guess its pretty clear

Now Im walking around
With my head in the clouds
And my feet two feet off the ground
Sure would be nice if you decide
To stick around
(Stick around)

Fear is what made me say
The stupid thing I said that day
And I tried to take it all back
With a copy of Abbey Road
It was my, old pride
I was so uncool but you let it slide
And yes, I gotta confess
You have opened up my heart

Now its nothing short of amazing
They way you can hang when I freak out
So it would be nice if you decide
To stick around
Stick around
Stick around
Stick around

Oooos – C – Am – C – Dm – Bm – C – Am – F – D – G

Now Im walking around
With my head in the clouds
And my feet two feet off the ground
And it would be nice if you decide
I wouldnt think twice if you decide
Sure would be nice if you decide

C C – Am – Em – Am – C – Dm – G – C – Am – C – F – Am – D – G

To stick around

End on C

Comment for changes

G 320033 (355433)
D xx0232
A x02220

Tune down a quarter step (yes, a quarter step)

I didn’t include the intro/basic verse with this one.
If anyone needs this please drop me a note and I’ll
send it to you.

Verse:
The other night I had a crazy dream
Bout a man in a fishin hat, he was sellin magazines
All the way from Kingston he had worked his way down
And I bought him a drink on the night they kicked him outta town

He said, “You know I don’t like the way I am
You know I don’t like the way I am
You know I don’t like the way I am
No, no, no I don’t like the way I am”

Verse:
And I saw an old fisherman swayin on the dock
Swingin a junk of somethin and the string of fish that he had caught
His wife had left him just a week before
She packed up her bags and waltzed on out the door

She said, “You know I don’t like the way I am
You know I don’t like the way I am
You know I don’t like the way I am
You know I don’t like the way I am
And then she cried right aloud

Chorus:
She sang, “Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee
Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee
Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee

Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-eeeee-eeeeee"

Verse:
And you and me walked down the shores of our youth
Chasin the sunrise and challenging the truth
It’s all so distant now, I’ve seen too many lies
Turning my vision into crumbling demise

Aww, you know I don’t like the way I am
I don’t like the way I am
But you know, I’m gonna change the way I am
Oh yes I am, I’m gonna change the way I am
Right now, hear me crying

Sing, Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee
Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-he
Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee

Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-eeeee-eeeeee

Verse:
The other night I had a crazy dream
About a man in a fishin hat he was sellin old magazines
All the way from Kingston he had worked his way down
And I, I bought him a drink on the night they kicked him outta town

He said to me, he said, “You know I don’t like the way I am (just like that)
You know I don’t like the way I am
But I’m gonna change the way I am, yes I am
I’m gonna change the way I am”

Chorus:
Then he played a song for me on a sqeeze-box

Say hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo

hooo-hooo

hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo

hooo-hooo

hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo-oo hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo-oo

hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo-oo

hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo

hooo-hooo

Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-he
Yay-ee la-oo tay-ee-he-ee
Aaaahhh

INTRO:

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This is the MARIA figure:

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The ending is the intro with ad-lib, then simply play this:
I sing for my Maria

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LYRICS:
play intro

Oh my Ma – ri – a[D#+]
Seems you got me in your spell once mo[D#+]re
Must be there’s a storm on the wa[D#+]y
You taught me to know when you’re near
Mmmm…

In your glance recall my shady days of youth
Stealing altar wine and microphones
Not so blindly fueling my need
As rock and roll fueled my dreams
You know rock and roll fueled my [D#+]dreams yeah

BRIDGE 1
E E#º F#m
Back then you saw me as this child in great need of the wildest sin
How sweet your grace I [D#+]stumbled in
E E#º
And how completely you waved as I laughed in your face
Oh my Maria[D#+]
Oh my Maria[D#+]

play MARIA figure

Oh my Maria
how you stood for strength and sanity
Now there is someone poking holes in thee
I see now why you’ve called me near
Maria my song can you he[D#+]ar

BRIDGE 2
I know you see the silence on the sidewalk and the anger in the street
And the [D#+]voices of all these children coming up to my feet
E E#º F#m
And we sing your song in vain as some preacher sees his reign come down
Maria[D#+]
Oh my sweet Maria[D#+]
E E#º
In the silence on the hill you know I’ll be dreamin’ of you still
Now the one Maria[D#+]
Oh my Maria[D#+]

play MARIA figure
Maria
Maria

VOCAL SOLO
[D#+]
[D#+]
[D#+]
[D#+]
play verse chords
Hmmm…
Hmmm…
Hmmm…
I sing for my Maria[D#+]
play ending
I sing for my Maria

CHORDS:
D 000000
D#+ 12102x

F#m 444304
E#º 32322x
C#5 x4674x

(Chorus)
Where did I go wrong with you
E F#9sus G#9 F#9 B7#5 (F note)
Where did I go wrong
(Verse 2)
No more d[E6/9]im Sunday night’s dance to that sexy radio show
O[E6/9]ur hips locked tight
Your neck sweating glow
A[E6/9]ll sweet night, we’d cook
Supper slow

And oh by the way
You left your candle babe

(Bridge)
Burning down
I’m begging darlin’ please

(Chorus)
Where did I go wrong with you
Where did I go wrong
Was it something I said or did or didn’t do
Was all I had not enough for you
Tell me where did I go wrong with you[-]

All the life we were burning through
What with your memory shall I do
I opened up the deepest of my inside
It was all I had left to give
To you
Where did I go wrong with you [-] [E6/9]

Sittin in this lonely town wonderin when things are going to change
Dreamin my life away and it seems them dreams have
turned into a bunch of dust clouds
Gettin my nerve up, but my past is pullin me down
Wonderin how long this black sheep can stick around

Somebody told me once before you can never go home again once you leave
Say anything just to scare me away from the truth of

who I am and what I believe
So I thanked him for his two cents with a shake and some sympathy
And I packed up my blue jeans and I headed for the big prize of my
freedom

(Chorus)
Bye bye black sheep, black sheep of the family
Bye bye black sheep how that means so much to me
Bye bye to my friends and my family
Bye bye black sheep goin off to set my soul, set it free

(Bridge)
Times they were a changin, I did just a little re-arrangin
Take a couple chances, my progress it advances
To that prize of my freedom[F/C/Dm/Bb]

It’s written in the stars steel bars never will a prison cell make
Once I find that sweet home or a place I like to call home anyway
Some people will say I’m crazy singin out loud like I do here on the
street
When I got a song I sing it out loud and if you don’t like that my
friend,
Well I’m gonna say to you

(Chorus)

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