Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 15:50:57 -0600
From: jtb@xmission.com (J.T. Broderick)
Subject: The Blasters, Marie Marie.crd

Marie Marie
by Dave Alvin

The Blasters, “The Blasters”, Slash Records, 1981, “The Blasters
Collection”, Slash Records, 1990

Marie Marie
Playing guitar on the back porch
I sit in my car
While she sings so sad
Marie Marie

Marie Marie
It’s so lonely in these farmlands
Please come with me
To the bright lights downtown
Marie Marie

chorus:
I said, “Hey, pretty girl
Don’t you understand
I just want to be your lovin’ man”

Marie Marie
The sun is down in the corn fields
The evening is dark
And you sing so sad
Marie Marie

Marie Marie
I got two weeks in back pay
There’s gas in my car
And your folks say I must go
Marie Marie

(repeat chorus)

Marie Marie
Playing guitar on the back porch
I leave in my car
While you sing so sad
Marie Marie

Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:01:55 -0600
From: jtb@xmission.com (J.T. Broderick)

American Music
by Dave Alvin

The Blasters, “The Blasters” Slash Records, 1981, “The Blasters Collection”
Slash Records, 1990

n.c.no chord

Intro: E, E6

(n.c.) E (n.c.) E (n.c.)
Well a US soldier boy on leave in West Berlin
E (n.c.) E (n.c.)
No music there that rocks, just a thousand violins
(n.c.) A7 E
He wants to hear some American Music, American Music.
They want to hear that sound right from the USA

Well it can be sweet and lovely, it can be hard and mean
But one thing’s for sure: it’s always on the beam
They want to hear some American Music, American Music
They want to hear that sound right from the USA

It’s a howl from the desert, the screams from the slums
The Mississippi rollin’ to the beat of the drums
Because they’re playing American Music, American Music
They want to hear that sound right from the USA

(bridge)
We got the Louisiana boogie and the Delta Blues
Country swing and rockabilly, too
We got jazz, country-western and Chicago blues
It’s the greatest music that you ever knew
Well it’s American Music, it’s American Music It’s American Music
It’s the greatest sound right from the USA

Well a US soldier boy has to stop right in his tracks
When he hears that crazy beat, he turns and doubles back
Because they’re playing American Music, American Music
The whole world digs that sound from the USA