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Long Island Sound by James McMurtry
Long Island Sound
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
G C G Em C
G C G Em D C G
G C G
[Verse 1]
G C G
New Mexico's lost on the back streets of Austin
C G
Carolina keeps all her thoughts to herself
C G
Tennessee's tight and he will not stop talking
D C
Somebody shush him 'fore I have to myself
[Verse 2]
G C G
Wrote that verse for the kids but I never did sing it
C G
I filed it away and forgot it in time
C G
My old guitar sits in the back bedroom closet
D C
Next to the shotgun I got when I was nine
[Verse 3]
G C G
And if I had any sense I'd be way 'cross the Whitestone
C G
I might as well as sit here a while 'fore I start
C G
'Cause when the 5:30 rush hits the Cross Island Parkway
D C
It's not for the squeamish or the gentle of heart
[Verse 4]
G C G
I'd be stuck on the bridge in the right lane at sunset
C G
Watchin' the boats with their snowy white sails
C G
Watchin' the sun sinkin' over the projects
D C
Laundry hung out off the balcony rails
[Verse 5]
G C G
And where are you now, my long secret love?
C G
Where have you gone in your glamorous life?
C G
Where are you now as the moon comes a-risin'?
D C
Are you somebody's love? Are you somebody's wife?
[Chorus]
D G C G
These are the best days, these are the best days
Bm Em C
Y'all put your money away, I got the round
D G C G
Here's to all you strangers, the Mets and the Rangers
Em D C G
Long may we thrive on the Long Island Sound
[Instrumental]
G C G C G
[Verse 6]
G C G
I don't know what goes on in those crumblin' brick buildings
C G
They're on the same planet in a whole 'nother world
C G
I've got a bay boat and a 401-K
D C
Two cars in the driveway, two boys and a girl
[Verse 7]
G C G
It doesn't seem like that long since we came up from Tulsa
C G
Been here six years and I reckon we'll stay
C G
The comp'ny's not bad as companies go
D C
They've still got the health plan and they're raisin' my pay
[Verse 8]
G C G
And the kids all play soccer like nobody's business
C G
My grandmother says we're just lettin' 'em fall through
C G
They don't go to church and we're not gonna make 'em
D C
They all drop their "r"s like the islanders do
[Chorus]
D G C G
These are the best days, these are the best days
Bm Em C
Y'all put your money away, I got the round
D G C G
Here's to all you strangers, the Mets and the Rangers
Em D C G
Long may we thrive on the Long Island Sound
[Instrumental]
G C G Em C
G C G Em D C G
G C G
[Verse 9]
G C G
I remember her singin' from that dusty old hymnal
C G
Smelled like tobacco from Grandaddy's pipe
C G
That old rugged cross 'til she shook down the shingles
D C
You never heard such a noise in your life
[Verse 10]
G C G
I had a tire run low so I dug through the glove box
C G
I needed the manual to locate the jack
C G
Found a couple old picks and a twenty-gauge shot-shell
D C
Left from a dove hunt a couple years back
[Chorus]
D G C G
These are the best days, these are the best days
Bm Em C
Y'all put your money away, I got the round
D G C G
Here's to all you strangers, the Mets and the Rangers
Em D C G
Long may we thrive on the Long Island Sound
Em D C G
Long may we thrive on the Long Island Sound
[Outro]
G C G
New Mexico's lost on the back streets of Austin
C G
Carolina keeps all her thoughts to herself
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