Cover Up The Sun

CHORDS C   | 032010 Em  | 022000 F   | 133211 G   | 320033 Am  | 002210 Dm  | xx0231 Colorado passes by like writing on a wall Headed eastward down to New Orleans Dippin’ into Texas as the stars are fading out There’s still a lot of country in between When I left California I was 29 years old And the world just spun me around Now I watched Louisiana scroll across the window pane And I face in the direction I am bound Co-ver up the sun Let the river run Make that water come Wash me away Me Clifton and the king of cats we sat down in the road Pedro said "Boys we’re three of a kind" He said "I sat with river rats and hung my hat with diplomats Had four brothers once upon a time" He said they toured the country far away from the Rio Grande And the road just wore them down So they bought a house beside a lake outside of New Orleans And they stared in the direction of the escalating sound Cover up the sun Let the river run Take this good man’s son And wash him away Well Sister Indecipherable is talkin to a wall Back in New York city she’s a queen (New York she’s a queen) Well resurrect or genuflect she saves the one she can’t protect Keeps the chapel Pris- if not Sis-tine She drinks Absinthe mixed with Kerosene to keep herself upright But the world still brings her down If you can’t keep your shit together when God is on your side What chance do you have when he’s not around? Cover up the sun Make that water run Let the river come To wash me away People of the Mardi Gras in their Tuesday best Waiting for the South to rise again Children of Geronimo grieving for the West Feather-dressed and marching their refrain Oh in the dark of Armstrong Park the marching bands attend But they never make a sound Just a quiet prayer for Congo Square a silent conversation there With the night to rest our eyes in we just look to the horizon for the change Cover up the sun Let the river run I pray the waters come to wash me away Colour in the sky Make that diesel fly Oh just lay me down to die and just take me away.