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