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