Sam Baker - Odessa
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Capo: 2
song: Odessa
Artist: Sam Baker
tabbed by: CYGUITARS
capo on 2nd fret, standard tuning.
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CWhile we seek mirth and beauty and mFusic light and gaCy,
There are frail forms faGinting at the doCor.
CThough their voices are silent, their plFeading looks will sCay,
Oh, hard times, cGome again no moCre.
CThere's the song, the sFigh of the weCary.
Hard times, hard times, cGome again no morCe.
CMany days you have lingered on aroFund my cabin doCor.
Oh, hard times, coGme again no moCre.
[Verse 1]
CHe was an Odessa boy with a daddy in the money
Fhe played for Mojo back in the boom
Gdrove a Corvette took what he wanted from peoFple
they learned to give him lots of rAmoom
[Chorus]
CWell he never learned to work
Fbut that never really mattered
Gbecause the dark crude flowed
Amthe wild oats scattered
Cthe dark, crude, it flowed
GHe fought, he flattered
Fand he got what he wanted
Amit was the only thing that mattered
[Verse 2]
Well life was easy and the big jacks pumped
pooring cash from the permian field
There were cabinets full of high grade scotch
garage, full of high speed steel
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Then he killed a girl when he rolled the Corvette
Daddy's money made the lawyers go away
his mother bought vodka with all that cash
she kind of knew, yeah she kind of knew
Well he's an old man now
lives on his dead Daddy's place
never took a wife, gunna die without a trace
you see he loved the girl who was pinned in the 'vette
he talkes to her everyday
her face face was blood and diamonds
he remembers her, that way.
[Chorus]
[Outro](same chords as Intro)
There's a pale droopy maiden who toiled her life away
With a worn heart, whose better days are o'er.
Though her voice it would be merry, 'tis sighin' all the day,
Oh, hard times, come again no more.