Coyote

Tuning: Rearranged to standard tuning (from CGDFCE) [Chords] Cadd9  x3203x Csus4  x3301x Bb5    x13xxx Dm9    x5355x G      355433 F      133211 [Intro] Cadd9  Csus4  (x4) [Verse 1] No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance Cadd9                        Csus4 I’m up all night in the studios Csus4         G And you’re up early on your ranch You’ll be brushing out a broodmare’s tail While the sun is ascending and I’ll just be Cadd9                           Csus4 Getting home with my reel to reel There’s no comprehending Dm9                                             Cadd9 Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes Cadd9                  Csus4 And the lips you can get And still feel so alone And still feel related Like stations in some relay F            Cadd9                Csus4 You’re not a hit and run driver no no Racing away You just picked up a hitcher Dm9                                  Cadd9 A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway [Break] Cadd9  Csus4  (x4) [Verse 2] We saw a farmhouse burning down In the middle of nowhere In the middle of the night Cadd9                              Csus4        And we rolled right past that tragedy Till we turned into some road house lights Where a local band was playing F                                         Cadd9       Locals were up kicking and shaking on the floor Cadd9                  Csus4        And the next thing I know That coyote’s at my door He pins me in a corner and he won’t take no Cadd9                        Csus4           He drags me out on the dance floor And we’re dancing close and slow Now he’s got a woman at home He’s got another woman down the hall He seems to want me anyway Cadd9                     Csus4           Why’d you have to get so drunk And lead me on that way You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway [Break] Cadd9  Csus4  (x4) [Verse 3] I looked a coyote right in the face Dm9                                       Cadd9        On the road to Baljennie near my old home town Cadd9                             Csus4          He went running thru the whisker wheat Chasing some prize down And a hawk was playing with him F                                          Cadd9       Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes Cadd9                             Csus4          He had those same eyes just like yours Under your dark glasses Privately probing the public rooms Cadd9                                 Csus4           And peeking thru keyholes in numbered doors Where the players lick their wounds And take their temporary lovers F                                                 Cadd9       Csus4 And their pills and powders to get them thru this passion play Csus4              No regrets Coyote I just get off up aways You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway [Break] Cadd9  Csus4  (x4) [Verse 4] Coyote’s in the coffee shop He’s staring a hole in his scrambled eggs Cadd9                        Csus4            He picks up my scent on his fingers While he’s watching the waitresses’ legs He’s too far from the Bay of Fundy From appaloosas and eagles and tides Cadd9                      Csus4           And the air conditioned cubicles And the carbon ribbon rides Are spelling it out so clear Cadd9                                  Csus4          Either he’s going to have to stand and fight Or take off out of here I tried to run away myself F                               Cadd9 Csus4     To run away and wrestle with my ego And with this flame You put here in this Eskimo In this hitcher In this prisoner Of the fine white lines Dm9                       Cadd9     Csus4           Of the white lines on the free free way [Outro] Cadd9  Csus4  Bb5  Dm9 Cadd9  Csus4 (x8 until fade out)