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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 D# if you want it to sound
exactly like the song.
D#m Cb D#m
D#m
Down the crooked road a ways
Cb D#m
A# child's shadow hiding in the Briar
F# D#m F# D#m
Tending to a twisted heart
Cb G#m
that's bent and broken
Cb G#m
wounded and abandoned
A#7 D#m
left amongst the rotted root to rot
D#m Cb D#m
D#m
Moon, crimson moon
Cb D#m
Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
F# D#m F# D#m
All aglow, her fair white skin
Cb G#m Cb G#m
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
F# D#m F# D#m
Hears the hush crying from the briar
Cb G#m Cb G#m
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
C# G#m
and is dragged through the darkness
C# G#m
beneath the lonely cypress
Cb G#m
The town's beloved daughter
Cb G#m
carried to her death in the turbid waters
A#7 D#m
and set afloat downstream
D#m Cb D#m
F# D#m F# D#m
Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
Cb G#m Cb G#m
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
F# D#m F# D#m
Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep
Cb G#m Cb G#m
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
F# D#m F# D#m
Can't hold back these waves of anger
Cb G#m
Tie a rope around his neck
Cb G#m
See if he still hollers
A#7 D#m
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar
D#m D#m Dm