Intro : G G/F# Em7 2x
Verse I:
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Last night I had me a nightmare
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Dreamed that Texas was burning down...burning down
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And all them people, I had grown up to love
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Leaving town
Chorus:
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I cried "oh Holy Moses, bring blood to the Red Red Sea
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Bring back Townes Van Zandt, and my heroes back to me
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Because I can play their songs, but it ain't they way they do
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It ain't they way they do."
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I had a nightmare, a nightmare, it was a nightmare.
Verse II:
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Buddy Holly was riding on the wind
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Stevie Ray, well he was too
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When their star, come tumbling to the ground
Csus9
Wasn't a thing that all the king's horses
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And all the king's men could do
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Me I've just got my ol' bar stool
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And man it's burning me down...burning me down
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Just like a brush fire, that burns on through the night
Csus9
One of these days I'm just going
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These days I'm going to burn on out
Repeat Chorus
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