Return Of The Grievous Angel
Lucinda Williams & David Crosby (Gram Parsons Cover)
From the Gram Parsons Tribute Album - "The Return of the Grievous Angel"
It is worth getting!
G C G
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich and welcome me back to town?
C G
Come out on your porch - step into your parlor
A D
and I'll tell you how it all went down
G
Out with the truckers and the kickers and
C G C
the cowboy angels and a good saloon in every single town
Chorus:
C D G
And I remember something you once told me
C D G
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
C D G Bm Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
C D G
and they all lead me straight back home to you
Bm C G
'Cause I headed west to grow up with the country
Em D G
A cross those prairies with the waves of grain
Bm C D G
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
C D C D G
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
G C
We flew straight across that river bridge last night,
G C
half past two - The switchman waved his lantern goodbye
G A D
and good day as we went rolling through
G C
Billboards and truck stops pass by the Grievous Angel
G C G
And now I know just what I have to do
Bridge:
Bm C G
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
Em D
He wants to take my money for something I've never been
G Bm C D G
Shown - And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
C D C D G
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
G C G
The news I could bring, I met up with the King On his head, an amphetamine crown
C G
He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt
A D
and lighted out for some desert town
G
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy
C G C
angels and a good saloon in every town
Chorus:
C D G
And I remember something you once told me
C D G
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
C D G Bm Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
C D G
and they all lead me straight back home to you
C D G Bm Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
C D G
and they all lead me straight back home to you