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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 A# if you want it to sound
exactly like the song.
A#m Gb A#m
A#m
Down the crooked road a ways
Gb A#m
F child's shadow hiding in the Briar
C# A#m C# A#m
Tending to a twisted heart
Gb D#m
that's bent and broken
Gb D#m
wounded and abandoned
F7 A#m
left amongst the rotted root to rot
A#m Gb A#m
A#m
Moon, crimson moon
Gb A#m
Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
C# A#m C# A#m
All aglow, her fair white skin
Gb D#m Gb D#m
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
C# A#m C# A#m
Hears the hush crying from the briar
Gb D#m Gb D#m
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
G# D#m
and is dragged through the darkness
G# D#m
beneath the lonely cypress
Gb D#m
The town's beloved daughter
Gb D#m
carried to her death in the turbid waters
F7 A#m
and set afloat downstream
A#m Gb A#m
C# A#m C# A#m
Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
Gb D#m Gb D#m
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
C# A#m C# A#m
Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep
Gb D#m Gb D#m
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
C# A#m C# A#m
Can't hold back these waves of anger
Gb D#m
Tie a rope around his neck
Gb D#m
See if he still hollers
F7 A#m
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar
A#m A#m Dm