Kevin Welch - Flycatcher jack and the whippoorwills song

^AmWind is warm as mother's milk, steady as a siren Though my whiskers smell of soap, my pistol smells of iron ^DmThis front porch is higher than, the rest of this poor town I ^Ampiss every day away, ^Ewatch the sun go ^Amdown

^AmIf I was a gamblin' man, the way I used to be Those downtown gals would gather 'round, Just to watch the likes of me And those ^Dmlazy bones would tumble, Those lazy bones would roll I'd^Am pick out my downtown gal,^E give her all my ^Amgold

^DmHey, hey, ^Amwhippoorwill sings^E all kinds a ^Amfoolish things ^Dm All I know is that, if ^AmI had wings,^E I'd be gone by ^Amnow

^AmOnce a year this old hotel fills up at harvest time Mexicans and Gypsy kids, mostly friends a mine ^DmThey all come in at sundown, fill my whiskey glass They ^Amsit and sing a song with me,^E let the evenin' ^Ampass

^AmFor in the old days I worked with them, I worked till the work was done The crew we had back in those days, we where always number one ^DmNorthward with the seasons, Southward in the fall Till ^AmI got hurt in the oil patch,^E Boys I had it ^Amall

^DmHey, hey, ^Amwhippoorwill sings^E all kinds a ^Amcrazy things ^Dm All I know is that, if ^AmI had wings,^E I'd be gone by ^Amnow

^AmThis year we had no rain at all, not a single crop came in Nothin' moves on Main Street now but an Oklahoma wind And ^DmI am just a shadow, of the man I used to be And I ^Amwish I had someone to sing 'The ^ELong Black Veil' with ^Amme

^DmHey, hey, ^Amwhippoorwill sings^E all kinds a ^Amfoolish things ^Dm All I know is that, if ^AmI had wings,^E I'd be gone by ^Amnow

^DmHey, hey, ^Amwhippoorwill sings^E all kinds a ^Amfoolish things ^Dm All I know is that, if ^AmI had wings,^E I'd be gone by ^Amnow