Hey Jack Kerouac
By 10,000 Maniacs
Chords:
D xOO232
Dsus4 xOO233
F#m7 OOO222
G 32OOO3
A OO222O
CAPO IV
D D G
D Dsus4
Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother
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and the tears she cried, they were cried for none other
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than her little boy lost in a little world that hated
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and that dared to drag him down, her little boy courageous
A
who chose his words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood
G A
Hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts
G
they all spoke through you.
D Dsus4
Hey Jack, now for the tricky part,
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when you were the brightest star, who were the shadows?
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Of the San Francisco beat boys you were the favorite.
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Now they sit and rattle their bones and think of their blood stoned days.
A
You chose your words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood
G A
The hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts,
G D
in Chinatown howling at night.
G D G D G A x2
D Dsus4
Allen baby, why so jaded?
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Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?
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Billy, what a saint they've made you,
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just like Mary down in Mexico on All Souls' Day.
A
You chose your words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood
G A
Cool junk booting madmen, street minded girls
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in Harlem, howling at night.
G D G D G A x2
G D
What a tear stained shock of the world,
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you've gone away babe, without sayin’, saying goodbye.