Don't Wake the Scarecrow — The Felice Brothers
Chords and lyrics for Don't Wake the Scarecrow by The Felice Brothers (key of D).
Intro
[F#m] [Bm]
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[F#m] [Bm]
[G] [A]
Verse 1
Would you [D]love me
If I told you I was born [Bm]upstream?
If I told you I come from [G]money?
[G]White money
Would you [D]love me?
[D]Would you love me?
Well I was [D]born down
By a bad little river in a [Bm]poor town
Where an indian giver would leave the [G]board out
It said [G]boarding house
Call him [D]Scarecrow
[D]He kept whores around
And I'd [D]go there
I'd wait my turn on the [Bm]broken stairs
And get me the girl with the [G]golden hair
[G]Oh yeah
Leave your [D]clothes there
[D]on the folding chair
And in that [D]cold room
Your breath would twist just like [Bm]ghosts do
You said "Call me Dorothy in [G]red shoes"
And the bed [G]moved
[D]The bed moved
Chorus
Oh [G]Tracy don't you [A]wake that scarecrow [D]tonight
Verse 2
Well the [D]men would come in
It's hard living right giving [Bm]head
When the sad days of winter have [G]set in
[G]And the medicine
For a [D]mannequin is heroin
I'd find you [D]there in the bath
We'd cook up your shit in a [Bm]tin can
And you started calling me [G]tin man
[G]And we made plans
[D]To begin again, begin again
You saved the [D]C note
Told me you felt like a [Bm]sea gull
Told me to meet at the [G]depot
[G]With the needles
And baby [D]we'd go to Reno
Where you'd be [D]my desert dove
And we'd find a way to make [Bm]better love
Said baby that's how the [G]west was won
[G]In the blood red sun yeah
[D]The blood red sun in the blood red...
Chorus
[G]Tracy don't you [A]wake that Scarecrow [D]tonight
Break
[F#m] [Bm]
[F#m] [Bm]
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[G] [A]
Verse 3
Well the [D]man cries
Who gives a damn when a [Bm]tramp dies
But I loved you there in the [G]lamplight
[G]With your bare thighs
And the [D]halo
[D]Of your hairline
And all my [D]life long
I'll never shake off your [Bm]silent song
And all of your talk about [G]dying young
With an [G]iron lung
And that crazy [D]way
[D]You said
Chorus
Simon [G]I think I might stay [A]here with Scarecrow [Bm]tonight
Simon [G]I think I'm gonna [A]stay here with Scarecrow[D] tonight
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