Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendezvous

Settin’ at a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant, She was starin’ at her coffee cup,

He was tryin’ to keep his courage up while ‘plying booze.

The talk was small when they talked at all they both knew what they want.

There was no need to talk about it,

They were old enough to start without it and keep it smooth.

C# F#m D (5 beats)
She said, “You don’t look like my type but I guess you’ll do.”

Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.

He said, “I’ll even tell you that I love you if you want me to.”

(Solo 1)

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Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.

(Solo 2)

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When they left the bar, they got in his car and they drove away.
^
He drove to the Family Inn, She didn’t even have to pretend she didn’t know what for.
^ ^
Then he went to the desk and made his request while she waited outside.
^
When he came back with the key, she said give it to me and I’ll unlock the door.
^ ^

She kept sayin’, “I’ve never really done this kind of thing before, have you?”

(Solo 1)

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Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.

He said, “Yes I have, but only a time or two.”

(Solo 1)

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Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.
Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.

After the first verse there are some ^s under some of the lyrics. This marks
a place where one can put in a harmonic scale run as follows:

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(Scott Emerick, Sammy Kershaw, John Sherrill)

There’s a place at the edge of town>
Where everybody hangs around
Watchin’ the sun go down until it’s gone

Sometimes I drop in
In fact more than now and then
Lately I’ve been takin’ the long way home

Sometimes she still holds me tight
And tells me everything’s alright
Even though I know she’s already moved on

Here I am my friend
Where I seem to wind up in the end
And once again I’m takin’ the long way home

It’s a long way, long way from here to there
Gettin’ longer everyday but she don’t care

Break

There’s really nothin’ for me here
But I guess I’ll have another beer
And walk on over there and play one more song

And when it’s time for me to go
Where I’m going I don’t know
I just know I’m takin’ the long way home

It’s a long way, long way from here to there
Gettin’ longer everyday but she don’t care

Still sittin’ here my friend
I knew I’d be here till the end
‘Cause once again I’m takin’ the long way home
‘Cause once again I’m takin’ the long way home

1.I’m a Monday Night Football, Friday night pool hall guy
I ain’t never been one to let a good time pass me by
You’re standing there statin’, you’re tired of waitin’, celebratin’s gratin’
on you
If you feel that way, if it’ll make you stay, well here’s what I’m gonna do

C.If you’re gonna walk, I’m gonna crawl
You’ll see how low a man can go when his back’s aganst the wall
I’ll be grovellin’ in the gravel if you make that taxi call
If you’re gonna walk, I’m gonna crawl
2.You’re a one man, pure gold, genuine, good old girl
You’ve been waitin’ on me to get tired of my neon world
Now the turn you’ve taken has got me shaken, it’s a heart-breakin’ wake-up
call
Now I’m seein’ how you see me and I feel about shoe-top tall

This is a very pretty song and I have enjoyed putting it on Cowpie. You might want to get a copy
of the album and listen to it to get a good idea of the tempo, and particulars about the first verse capo.
Hope you all enjoy it.
(Capo first verse only, Strum chorus and verse 2)

VERSE 1
I thought you might want to stay…
If I put my guitar away…
Quit the band and came home to stay…
But, that wouldn’t do…
And this ol’ guitar of mine…
used to easy my troubled mind…
But, now everyday I find…
It’s lonesome too...

CHORUS(strum)
Here I go again, blowin my show again,
Unable to go again, Still loving you,
Loosing my hope again, at the end of my rope again,
Unable to cope again, Still loving you

Verse 2(strum)
I must have been a million miles,
I must have faked a million smiles,
D GGGGD…
Just can’t get reconciled, to be without you.
And I like to start again,
Replay my part again,
D GGGGD…
Not break your heart again, Can’t stand these blues.

Chorus(again)

[–]John Corley
jcorley@c-gate.net
http://www.c-gate.net/~jcorley

Well, I met her out at Murphy’s Resteraunt
She said she was fresh from the farm
And I remember thinkin’ for a country girl
That she went pretty well armed
We sat there talkin’ by the lobster tank
I ordered her a sloe gin fizz
And when the chicken fried steaks arrived
She said I like living like this.

_____________
Chorus:
So I made her the queen of my doublewide trailor
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Sometimes she runs and I got to trail her
dang her black heart and her pretty red neck.

Verse2
A few nights later I run into her
with some stranger on a park bench
she said he rebuilds engines and his name is Earl
he’s the Charlie Daniels of the torque wrench
I whispered honey lets just go on home
and have some onion rings and watch TV
and as I walked her to the truck
Earl was cryin’ don’t you leave me

I told him..(CHORUS)

I said this here’s….(CHORUS) do this twice…

and then:

She’s the Queen—twice. all the time playing the chords of the chorus.

Jacob Wilson (jacobw@andromeda.tamu.edu)

(G) (C) (G) (C) x 2

Well I (G) really look a (C) mess
Ever (G) since you left I (C) guess
And the (Am) grass (G) out(C/B)side needs (C) mowin’ (D)
Laundry’s (G) stacked up three foot (C) tall
But I don’t (G) even care at (C) all
And I (Am) don’t (G) know (C/B) where I’m (C) goin’ (D)

Thank God you’re (G) gone
So you don’t (G/B) see me fall a(C)part (D)
Pickin’ up the (G) pieces of my (G/B) shattered broken (C) heart (D)
When (C) you left me, my (D) world came down
(G) It’s a good (G/B) thing you’re (C) not ar(G/B)ound to (Am) see
I’m really not that st(D)rong
Thank God you’re (G) gone (C) (G) (C)

Well they (G) took all my things to(C)day
Even (G) hauled my truck a(C)way
And the (Am) vines (G) died that (C/B) grew our (C) roses (D)
Don’t know (G) if it will ever (C) end
Seems like (G) I can’t find a (C) friend
I find a (Am) door (G) and (C/B) it just (C) closes, (D) so…

Thank God you’re (G) gone
So you don’t (G/B) see me fall a(C)part (D)
Pickin’ up the (G) pieces of my (G/B) shattered broken (C) heart (D)
When (C) you left me, my (D) world came down
(G) It’s a good (G/B) thing you’re (C) not ar(G/B)ound to (Am) see
I’m really not that st(D)rong
Thank God you’re (G) gone

[(G)] [(G/B)] [(C)] [(D)] [(G)] [(G/B)] [(C)] [(D)]
Thank God you’re (G) gone
So you don’t (G/B) see me fall a(C)part (D)
Pickin’ up the (G) pieces of my (G/B) shattered broken (C) heart (D)
When (C) you left me, my (D) world came down
(G) It’s a good (G/B) thing you’re (C) not ar(G/B)ound to (Am) see
I’m really not that st(D)rong
Thank God you’re (G) gone (C) (G) (C)

Thank God you’re (G) gone

Thank God you’re gone….