Three Rusty Reivers

Released in 2002 by Beneath Music
Transpose
INTRO (x2)
Gm
Dm
VERSE 1
Gm
Three rusty reivers in a flower
Ebsus2
van
Gm
Search for their comrade, the ailing circus
F
man
F
No sign of
F7
him since the
Bb7sus4
wild times fell
Bb
through
They
Bb7sus4
swap their old
Bb
tales now,
Fm
none of them
Bb
true
VERSE 2
Gm
Up from the badlands to dusty rutted
Ebsus2
streets
Where
Gm
thin boys drink codeine and their ragged mothers
F
screech
They
F
heard he was
F7
sick and his
Bb7sus4
family
Bb
starved
They
Bb7sus4
mention his
Bb
name in the
Cm7
blood-spattered
Ab7
bars
They get
Cm7
hostile
re
F#aug
marks
But they
Cm7
cease to en
Ab7
quire
When the
Cm7
van’s set on
F#add9
fire
VERSE 3
Gm
Mouldy pink motel, the city’s empty
Eb
half
Gm
Three pairs of old shoes tramp the mossy
F
path
Their
F
friend lies with
F7
in with his
Bb7sus4
bride aged fif
Bb
teen
She
Bb7sus4
answers the
Bb
door and re
Fm
lays what she’s
Bb
seen
VERSE 4
He
Gm
comes to them, stiff-necked, no smile upon his
Ebsus2
lips
Then
Gm
lowers his brow and says, “What the hell is
F
this?”
These
F
stretchy old
F7
faces, two
Bb7sus4
drunks and their
Bb
whore
Of
Bb7sus4
welcome round
Bb
here, well, the
Cm7
plague would find
Ab7
more
Then he
Cm7
slams shut the
F#
door
And a
Cm7
radio
Ab7
plays
From a
Cm7
truck far a
Dmaj7b5/F#
way – “Rose Marie”
INTERLUDE
Ebmaj7b5/A
Cm7
Ab7
VERSE 5/OUTRO
Am
Three rusty reivers, a woman and two
F13
men
Am
Once shared the same bed, you know how, way back
G
when
They
G
go back to their
G7
homes on the
C7sus4
groaning old
C
bus
The
C7sus4
sky’s awful
C
blue that one
Gm
night’s not dis
C
cussed
Am