Queenie’s Song
By Guy Clark & Terry Allen

Some S.O.B. shot my dog
I found her under a tree
If I hadn’t loved that dog so much
It wouldn’t mean nothin’ to me

But you son of a bh I’ll tell you what
I will not be deterred
I’ll find you out and track you down
On that you have my word

Chorus:
Queenie’s gettin' buried
It’s time to dig the hole
Am F
New years day in Santa Fe
Broke mean and it broke cold

I don’t predict the world will end
And I don’t presume it won’t
And I don’t pretend to give a damn
If it do or if it don’t

Now I bet you got a gun for christmas
But that don’t make it right
Now what in the hell where you thinking
With little Queenie in your sights?

Chorus

Now brother death and father time
Are almost loaded up
And they are headed for the borderline
In a stolen pick-up truck

For old acquaintance not forgot
For old dogs left behind
I wont’ forgive and I can’t forget
The year of ’99

Screamin' Auld Lang Syne

Chorus

— this could also just be the C chord, I’m not totally positive!

(Verse 1)
Two shots of wild turkey puts the wind in her hair
bound and determined as the cold morning air
If you don’t like horses I suggest you stay home,
she don’t ride double, get a horse of your own

(Chorus)
She loves to ride horses,
she doesn’t care, how long it will take her,
or if she ever gets there,
she ain’t got no reason
and she don’t need no rhyme,
she just loves to ride horses in three quarter time.

(Verse 2)
Ahh ya can.t tell her noth’n, she don’t wanna know
Ya can’t take her no where, she don’t wanna go
She might not show up, she might not go
She loves to ride horses and that’s about all.

(Chorus)
She loves to ride horses,
she doesn’t care, how long it will take her,
or if she ever gets there,
she ain’t got no reason
and she don’t need no rhyme,
she just loves to ride horses in three quarter time.

(Intro)

D A Em (4x)

In the dark you can sometimes hear your own heartbeat
Or the heart of the one next to you
And the house settles down after holding itself up all day
Shoulders slump, gives a big sigh
You hear no one’s foot fall in the hall
That drip in the kitchen sink keeps marking time
June bug on the window screen can’t get in, but keeps on trying
One way or another we’re all in the dark

(Chorus)

Fireflies and sparks and lightning and stars
Campfires, the moon, headlights on cars
A G (hold)
The Northern lights, the Milky Way

You can’t see that stuff in the day

D-A-Em (4x)

The Earth turns its back on the sun
And the stars come out and the planets start to run, around
They call that ‘day is done
But really it’s just getting started
Some folks take comfort in that

How dark is it? It’s too dark for goblins
How dark is it? It’s so dark you can smell the moon
How dark is it? It’s so dark the wind gets lost
How dark is it? So dark the sky’s on fire
A G (hold)
How dark is it? It’s so dark you can see Fort Worth from here

(D-A-Em) x 6 then (D)

REX’S BLUES
GUY CLARK

INTRO D G D G

RIDE THE BLUE WIND HIGH AND FREE
SHE’LL LEAD YOU DOWN THRU MISERY
LEAVE YOU LOW COME TIME TO GO
ALONE AND LOW AS LOW CAN BE

IF I HAD A NICKEL, I’D FIND A GAME
IF I HAD A DOLLAR, I’D MAKE IT RAIN
IF IT RAINED AN OCEAN, I’D DRINK IT DRY
AND LAY ME DOWN DISSATISFIED

LEGS TO WALK AND THOUGHTS TO FLY
EYES TO LAUGH AND LIPS TO CRY
A RESTLESS TONGUE TO CLASSIFY
ALL BORN TO GROW AND GROWN TO DIE

TELL MY BABY I SAID SO LONG
TELL MY MOTHER I DID NO WRONG
TELL MY BROTHER TO WATCH HIS OWN
TELL MY FRIENDS TO MOURN ME NONE

CHAINED UPON THE FACE OF TIME
FEELING FULL OF FOOLISH RHYME
THERE AIN’T NO DARK TILL SOMETHIN SHINES
I’M BOUND TO LEAVE THIS DARK BEHIND

RIDE THE BLUE WIND HIGH AND FREE
SHE’LL LEAD YOU DOWN THRU MISERY
LEAVE YOU LOW COME TIME TO GO
ALONE AND LOW AS LOW CAN BE

A pretty simple Guy Clark tune..there is some mandolin playing for fill but I ain’t no mando player.

INTRO – D G A7

Verse 1
He’s down a dead end road and he don’t know where His right front tire could sure use some air
Up around the bend just a two-pump place He pulls in to get his bearings straight

Verse 2
He thumbs back through his life the pages cut just like a knife
One by one he tears them out How he got so lost he really don’t know how

Chorus
In a nowhere town with a nowhere name he’s nowhere closer to where he came from
Dead sure no one’s to blame He’s just off the map again

INSTRUM – D D7 G A7 D A7

Verse 3
It starts to rain, he’s going to wait it out Going to rest his eyes, going to face his doubts
He pours a drink into a paper cup He goes to sleep and he don’t wake up

Chorus x 2