C F (Fm?)
There was a lonely guy he always wondered why
He couldnt catch the girls whod catches his eye
C F (Fm?)
The ones that turned to him they never turned him on
They all seemed so plain they all seemed so wrong

Well theres two young lovers there the best of friends

Got everything in common except the color of their skin

They hate to think about it but they cant ignore

Her family lets him in but leaves the welcome at the door

Chorus

If everyone was blind would we be surprised
At who become important in our lives
Our own two eyes can be our own worst [C/B]enemey
If we all where blind I wonder what we see

There the American Idol in that limousine

Shes got the sold out shows the clothes the body so young and lean

Well shes the total package except for just one thing

She ain’t got much talent no she can barely sing

Repeat Chorus 2X then fade out

I am not sure about the Fm’s
They sound good when I play it though I don’t hear them on the recording

The Bottle Rockets
1000 Dollar Car
>From the album The Brooklyn Side
Attempted transcription by Joe Wachtel

The verse chords seem to be Em///G///D///C///
The chorus chords are Em/G/D
The bridge chords are Am///D///G/GF#/C///
[Am///D///C///D///]
A thousand dollar car it ain’t worth nothin’
A thousand dollar car it ain’t worth shit
Might as well take your thousand dollars
And set fire to it
A thousand dollar car ain’t worth a dime
You lose your thousand dollars every time
Oh why did I ever buy
A thousand dollar car

A thousand dollar car is gonna let you down
More than it’s ever gonna get you around
Replace your gaskets and paint over your rust
You’ll still end up with something that you’ll never trust
A thousand dollar car’s life was through
‘Bout fifty thousand miles before it got to you
Oh why did I ever buy
A thousand dollar car

Bridge
A thousand dollar car ain’t gonna roll
Until you put at [G/F#]least another thousand in the hole
Sink your money in it , and there you are
The owner of a two thousand dollar thousand dollar car

Verse 3

If you only got a thousand dollars
You might as well buy a good guitar
Learn how to play, it’ll get you farther
Than any old thousand dollar car
If a thousand dollar car was to worth a damn
Then why would anybody ever spend ten grand
Oh why did I ever buy
A thousand dollar car

That’s it. Hope everyone enjoys it.

You ever see that damn thing that burned out shell
For a little while that trailer must have seemed like hell
If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

The kids wore rags and never worked too much

Who’s a judge to decide how much this world should punish

If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

Now the welfare check won’t pay for the electricity

Wonder who the jury was who decided they were all guilty

If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

Fire started about 3 AM you know none of them would survive

They hated that god damn trailer so it burnt them up alive

If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

Now it’s a pure perfect world see it tells no lies

It’ll burn you down if you try to improvise

If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

If kerosene works why not gasoline, if kerosene works why not gasoline

Capo 2

My honey’s coming home
She’s [Bm7/A]flying in tonight
When she touches down
I’ll start to feel alright

I want to run to her
And meet her at the gate
But ever since that sky fell down
We got to wait
Yeah we got to wait

Meet at the baggage claim
In a crowd of confusion I call her name
Lost in the luggage by the carousel
It’s hard to tell if all is well

We used to kiss
Right at the plane
‘For this whole world
Went insane

I hold her in my arms
Till she’d make me let her go
Then we’d walk and we’d talk
And take it slow
We’d take it real slow

But now it’s at the baggage claim
In a crowd of confusion I call her name
It’s so hard to tell if everything is well

Flowers at the gate
They used to be romantic
Now it’s been replaced
With something more phoetic

Solo

Flowers at the gate
They used to be romantic
Now it’s been replaced
With something more phoetic

Here at the baggage claim
So many faces they’re all the same
Lost in the luggage by the carousel
Hard to tell if all is well

Here at the baggage claim
In a crowd of confussion I call her name
I just want to hear her say
That everythings OK

Here at the baggage claim
So many faces they’re all the same
Lost in the luggage by the carousel
Hard to tell if all is well

Here at the baggage claim
In a crowd of confussion I call her name
I just want to hear her say
That everythings OK