Valley Of The Dead Cars
Released in 1989 by Kitchenware Records
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VERSE 1
F
F
A box full of groceries
F
Rotten clothes, she’s torn her knees
F
In the main street
Dm7
chill
She
F
sleeps at night in broke-down cars
F
Squirts the dreams into her arms
F
She says, “Junkie-man, have your
Dm7
fill.”
Well, she had
C
friends that
C7
went
a
D
broad and do not
G
write
She says the
C
hardest
C7
ones are
D
those who stay be
Bb
hind
CHORUS 1
In the
F
valley of the dead
Cm7
cars
They would
F
end it all if they could
Cm7
start
They
F
sent out their kids to
Dm
wander the world
G7
Now they can rest at
C
last
VERSE 2
You’re out
F
scootin’ by the graveyard and you’re looking for a brave heart
F
Could’ve been your lover but you said you never gave
You have to
F
be home early or you’ll get smacked ’round the head till
Dm7
bedtime
Now you
F
hike the roads on your half-shod feet
You
F
hump the devil, you hump the police
F
Criss-cross Harlem playing hide-and-seek with
Dm7
death
And now she
C
lurches
C7
off as
D
haughty as a
G
queen
To
C
take the
C7
waters
D
in old Skibbe
Bb
reen
CHORUS 1
In the
F
valley of the dead
Cm7
cars
They would
F
end it all if they could
Cm7
start
They
F
sent out their kids to
Dm
wander the world
G7
Now they can rest at
C
last
INTERLUDE
So I took her back with me to my
G/B
own true place
Bb
Which was a mildewed and disintegrating
F
cottage overlooking a disused waterfall
And we lay there in
G/B
silence, fruitless silence until
Bb
just before dawn when she rolled over
F
onto
me
F
G/B
Bb
F
F
G/B
Bb
F
VERSE 3
They
F
come withal in their Japanese cars
They
F
know where the good meal bargains are
F
And they spy by the side of the road in the twilight, rain and
Dm7
storm
She
F
juts her thumb in futile haste
Con
F
tempt to her is sweet to taste
The
F
nuns told her, “Do not waste sen
Dm7
sation.”
When the
C
towns are
C7
all just
D
smoking empty
G
shells
She will
C
still
C7
be here
D
doing what she does
Bb
well
CHORUS 2/OUTRO
In the
F
valley of the dead
Cm7
cars
At the
F
mouth of a flooded
Cm7
mine
F
I will embrace you
Cm7
hard
And we’ll
F
wait for the sun to
Cm7
shine
In the
F
valley of the dead
Cm7
cars
(Uh
F
huh yeah
Cm7
well)
The
F
valley of the dead
Cm7
cars
(Uh
F
huh oh
Cm7
ho)
F