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Song: Zip City Band: Drive-By Truckers Album: Southern Rock Opera Tuning: Normal Capo: None ----- Notes ----- #1 - The song is in 4:4, transcribed 1 line per measure #2 - Zip City, AL http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.95675,-87.66901&spn=0.022405,0.025663&t=h&z=15 ----- INTRO ----- Am C G D Gsus4 D Am C G D Gsus4 D ------- VERSE 1 -------
G-- Your daddy was mad as hell. Em-- He was mad at me and you when he CTied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me AmOut of that ditch that I Cslid into.
G-- Don't know what his problem is, Em-- Why he keeps sending me away. Don't know CWhy I put up with this shit when you AmDon't put out and Zip CCity's so far a-
Gway. Gsus2 G-- Gsus4--
--------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro) --------- ------- VERSE 2 -------
G-- Your daddy is a deacon down at the EmSalem Church of Christ, and he CMakes good money as long as Reynolds AmWrap keeps everything Cwrapped up tight.
G-- Your mama's as good a wife and EmMama as she can be, and your CSister keeps puttin' that sweet stuff on every- Ambody in town but Cme.
D-- Your brother was the first-born, got ten EmFingers and ten toes, And it's a CDamn good thing cause he needs all twenty just to AmKeep the closet door
CClosed.
--------- INTERLUDE G Gsus2
C(RepeatG Intro) ---------
------- VERSE 3 -------
Am-- Maybe it's the twenty-six mile CDrive from Zip City to Colbert GHeights that keeps my mind clean, DGets me through the night.
Am-- Or maybe you're just a desti- Cnation, a place for me to go that GKeeps me from having to deal with my DSeventeen-year-old mind all a-
Amlone. So keep your drawers on, girl, CIt ain't worth the fight. By the GTime you drop them I'll be gone and you'll DBe right where they fall the rest of your
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below) Life --------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro, beat 1 is 'life' from above) (Final "A" &-4-& is leading "you say you're" lyric below) --------- ------- VERSE 4 -------
DYou say you're
Am Tired of me taking you for
CGranted, Waiting up 'till the last GMinute to call you up and see DWhat you want to do. But you're
AmOnly fifteen, girl, you ain't CGot no secretary. And "For GGranted" is a mighty big word for a DCountry girl like you. I think that's
AmJust your Daddy talking, Cause he CKnows that blood red carpet down at the GSalem Church of Christ ain't gonna Dever see no wedding between
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below) me and you. --------- INTERLUDE (Repeat Intro, beats 1/2 are 'me and you' from above) --------- ------- VERSE 5 -------
Zip GCity it's a good thing that they EmBuilt the wall around you, Zip CUp to Tennessee then zip right AmDown to Ala-Cbama. I got
G-- 350 heads on a Em-- 305 engine, I get Cten miles to the gallon, I ain't Amgot no good in-Ctentions.
------ FINALE ------ G --crookedpath