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