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CROOKED ROAD AND THE BRIAR - Calexico
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This sounds fine tuned normal but you can play it open E if you want it to sound
exactly like the song.
Em C Em
Em
Down the crooked road a ways
C Em
B child's shadow hiding in the Briar
G Em G Em
Tending to a twisted heart
C Am
that's bent and broken
C Am
wounded and abandoned
B7 Em
left amongst the rotted root to rot
Em C Em
Em
Moon, crimson moon
C Em
Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
G Em G Em
All aglow, her fair white skin
C Am C Am
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
G Em G Em
Hears the hush crying from the briar
C Am C Am
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
D Am
and is dragged through the darkness
D Am
beneath the lonely cypress
C Am
The town's beloved daughter
C Am
carried to her death in the turbid waters
B7 Em
and set afloat downstream
Em C Em
G Em G Em
Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
C Am C Am
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
G Em G Em
Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep
C Am C Am
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
G Em G Em
Can't hold back these waves of anger
C Am
Tie a rope around his neck
C Am
See if he still hollers
B7 Em
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar
Em Em Dm