John Prine – Clay Pigeons chords

Song: Clay Pigeons
Artist: John Prine (originally Blaze Foley)
Capo on 3rd
Note:This is the way that John Prine plays it in the live performance I've seen

Intro:
G C G D , G C G D G

  G                                                   C       I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna buy a ticket to ride
       G                                             DGonna find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
 G                                                   CRide 'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
  GSmokin' cigarettes in the last seat
   D  Sing my song for the people I meet
   GAnd get along with it all
    Cwhere the people say "y'all"
      GSing a song with a friend
    DChange the shape that I'm in,
      GAnd get back in the game,
     C                   G  D  GAnd start playin' again


    G                                      CI'd like to stay but I might have to go to start over again
    G                                                   DMight go back down to Texas, might go to somewhere that Ive never been
    GAnd get up in the mornin' and go out at night
            CAnd I won't have to go home
           GGet used to bein' alone
           DChange the words to this song
       G            C   G  D GStart singin' again


(Repeat Intro)

            G                                                      CIm tired of runnin round lookin for answers to questions that I already know
        G                                           DI could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go
          G                                                    CCount the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle again

          GFeed the pigeons some clay
          DTurn the night into day
      G                      C               G  D GStart talkin' again, when I know what to say


(Repeat Intro)

         G                                           CI'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna buy a ticket to ride
      G                                             DGonna find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
  G                                                  CRide 'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
         GSmokin' cigarettes in the last seat
         DSing my song for the people I meet
          GAnd get along with it all

   Cwhere the people say "y'all"
          GFeed the pigeons some clay
         DTurn the night into day
       G                      C               G  D  GStart talkin' again, when I know what to say



(Repeat Intro)

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