PRINE JOHN - "bruised orange" Tablature

Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:22:16 -0500
From: Ray Allis <rallif@home.com>
Subject: CRD:p/prine_john/bruised_orange.crd

BRUISED ORANGE
by John Prine
interpreted by Ray Allis

G
My heart's in the ice house
2) I've been brought down to zero

come hill or come valley
2) pulled out and put back there
C
like a long ago Sunday
2) I sat on a park bench

when I walked through the alley
2) kissed the girl with the black hair
G
on a cold winters morning
2) and my head shouted down
D
to the church house
2) to my heart
G
just to shovel some snow
2) you better look out below

I heard sirens on the train tracks
2) Well it ain't such a long drop

howl naked , gettin nuder
2) don't stammer, don't studder
C
an alter boy had been hit
2) from the diamonds in the sidewalk

by a local comuter
2) to the dirt in the gutter
G
just from walking with his back turned
2) you'll be carrying those bruises
D
to a train
2) to remind you
G G7
that was coming so slow
2) wherever you go

(CHORUS)
C
You can gaze out the window

get mad and get madder
G
throw your hands in the air

and say what does it matter
D
but it don't do no good
C
to get angry
G G7
so help me I know
C
for a heart stained with anger

grows weak and grows bitter
G
you become your own prisoner

as you watch yourself sit there
D
wrapped up in a trap
C
of your very own
G
chain of sorrow

3) (Repeat first verse and chorus)


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