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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.
Cm Ab Cm
Cm
Down the crooked road a ways
Ab Cm
G child's shadow hiding in the Briar
D# Cm D# Cm
Tending to a twisted heart
Ab Fm
that's bent and broken
Ab Fm
wounded and abandoned
G7 Cm
left amongst the rotted root to rot
Cm Ab Cm
Cm
Moon, crimson moon
Ab Cm
Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
D# Cm D# Cm
All aglow, her fair white skin
Ab Fm Ab Fm
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
D# Cm D# Cm
Hears the hush crying from the briar
Ab Fm Ab Fm
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
A# Fm
and is dragged through the darkness
A# Fm
beneath the lonely cypress
Ab Fm
The town's beloved daughter
Ab Fm
carried to her death in the turbid waters
G7 Cm
and set afloat downstream
Cm Ab Cm
D# Cm D# Cm
Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
Ab Fm Ab Fm
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
D# Cm D# Cm
Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep
Ab Fm Ab Fm
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
D# Cm D# Cm
Can't hold back these waves of anger
Ab Fm
Tie a rope around his neck
Ab Fm
See if he still hollers
G7 Cm
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar
Cm Cm Dm