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