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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.
Am F Am
Am
Down the crooked road a ways
F Am
E child's shadow hiding in the Briar
C Am C Am
Tending to a twisted heart
F Dm
that's bent and broken
F Dm
wounded and abandoned
E7 Am
left amongst the rotted root to rot
Am F Am
Am
Moon, crimson moon
F Am
Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
C Am C Am
All aglow, her fair white skin
F Dm F Dm
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
C Am C Am
Hears the hush crying from the briar
F Dm F Dm
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
G Dm
and is dragged through the darkness
G Dm
beneath the lonely cypress
F Dm
The town's beloved daughter
F Dm
carried to her death in the turbid waters
E7 Am
and set afloat downstream
Am F Am
C Am C Am
Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
F Dm F Dm
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
C Am C Am
Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep
F Dm F Dm
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
C Am C Am
Can't hold back these waves of anger
F Dm
Tie a rope around his neck
F Dm
See if he still hollers
E7 Am
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar
Am Am Dm