Just A Story From America
Elliott Murphy
Just a Story From America - Elliott Murphy ------------------------------------------ vistit wwww.elliottmurphy.com Intro: - - - (barred chords) or - - - (open chords) Lead (with harmonist pedal (+octave)): e)---8-7--7---------9------8-7--7---------| B)--8---8---10--8-10------8---8---10--8-10| )-9---------------------9----------------| )----------------------------------------| )----------------------------------------| )----------------------------------------| Verse: Just a story from America He left his job and he looked at her I’ve had enough he put down his cup And every time she would fill it up Chorus: When she’d say Get up when they put you down But like a boxer You just spin around Your kind of guy is so very few Don’t ever let them get the best of you Verse: And so he’s working like a dog each day And every week there’d be more overtime pay And pretty soon he’s got a Cadillac car And on the weekends he would drive so far Bridge: And they don’t slow down America’s such a speedy town Hot clothes high society He said it never get the best of me Verse: And then he met a girl with hair like the sun With social status she was number one He left it all and he left downtown A little voice follows him around Chorus: And it’d say Get up when they put you down And like a boxer You just spin around Your kind of guy was so very few I thought they’d never get the best of you End: Just a story of America Just a story fro in America Just a story of America Just a story from America