Intro
F# D#m
F# D#m
F#
Excuse me, darlin', to disturb you
D#m
Could you spare a bit of what the lord's left for you?
F#
Bless your solemn, unending virtue
D#m
Lest your savior up desert you
[Verse 1]
F#
Jesus couldn't quell the pains of America in trucks and trains and tractor trailers on the range,
B F#
barmen counting out their change and Goldwyn Mayer,
D#m
Fred Astaire slicking back his oily hair, snort benzedrine off of a mirror, slaps her ass,
F#
"how are you dear?" and all the preachers whistle nervous, stare down devils in the back of churches,
B D#m
meet their luscious daughters in the smalls beneath the boughs of birches
[Chorus]
Bm B
And Judy Garland hit the bathroom floor of her cold apartment 'bove a Chelsea store
D#m G#
and all the drag queens and all the whores couldn't get poor Judy back up off of her laurels,
F# B D#m B D#m B G# B
and Judy (Judy, Judy, Judy)
F# B F# B F# D#m
F#
[Verse 2]
B F#
Wanna put my foot down on Manhattan
B F#
Watch it float down like a boogie board
B F#
See the water bulging through the avenue
D#m B
Watch the cool kids look out their window, bored
B
As their mother drops the rolling pin, the radio says
[Chorus]
F# B
Judy garland hit the bathroom floor of her cold apartment 'bove a Chelsea store
D#m G#
and all the drag queens and all the whores couldn't get poor Judy back up off of her laurels,
F# B D#m B D#m B G# B
and Judy (Judy, Judy, Judy)
[Outro]
F# D#m F# D#m
Judy Garland, you're a beauty, darlin'
F# D#m G#m
Judy Garland, you're a beauty, darlin'
F#
Judy Garland, you're a beauty, darlin'
G# B
Oh, Judy