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e: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 18:04:35 -0500
From: Ray Allis 
Subject: g/gorka_john/blue_chalk.crd



BLUE CHALK			
by John Gorka
From "Between Five And Seven"

C	
So I wonder how she's doing       
G	
I hate it when the rumors fly      
 Dm 		      Am		
They give off such a strange sense of mission      
 F			   G  	
Wing your helplessness on high       
C	
But she would never run from strangers       
G	
She sang alone like a bell will toll       
Dm	      Am	
Way above the clang and the clatter       
F			 G	
Out of fear of her demon soul	

[repeat 4 bars instrumental   line=bar	]       

C	
Maybe none of this is my business       
G	
And none of what I hear is true        
Dm	      Am	
I am far from mint condition       
F		      G     	
Circulation's hard on you		

CHORUS       
C	
Hold tight, hang tough       
G	
Love's not enough	   
Dm		Am	
To keep you off that stuff       
F        G	
To save you        
F	
Hold tight, hang tough      
Am7	
Love's not enough	   
Dm		     Am	
To keep you off that stuff	   
    F    G   C	
To save you now      

C	
He could always find the holes in the bottles       
G	
Even with a blindfold on       
Dm	       Am	
Never kept his seat on the wagon       
F		   G	
Rolling off like a rolling stone       
C	
Blue chalk between his fingers      
 G	
Hustling a poolroom song       
Dm		 Am	
He always kept a line for the singers       
F		 G	
Pointing his cue right from wrong	

[CHORUS]	

{Repeat first verse & chorus}	

transcribed by Ray Allis	rallif@erols.com	
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