Moonlight Motel

	  		Intro: D Bm G A 


Verse: 1 

D                    Bm 
There's a place on a blank stretch of road where 
G                         A 
Nobody travels and nobody goes and the 
D                  Bm 
Deskman says these days 'round here 
      G                                         A 
Where two young folks could probably up and disappear into 
G                         D 
Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room 
Bm       Bm/A   G 
Into the musty smell 
   D                       Bm 
Of wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours 
       G   A       D  Bm G A 
At the Moonlight Motel 


Verse: 2 

        D                         Bm 
Now the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep 
    G                                               A 
Got dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete 
D                     Bm 
Chain-link fence half-rusted away 
      G                                         A 
Got a sign, says, "Children, be careful how you play" 
G                            D 
Your lipstick taste and your whispered secret 
  Bm       Bm/A      G 
I promised I'd never tell 
  D                        Bm 
A half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear 
       G   A       D  Bm G A 
At the Moonlight Motel 


                G                  D/F# 
Well then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills 
        Bm      Bm/A   G 
And the ringing of the bell 
           D                        Bm 
Across the valley floor through the dusty screen door 
       G   A       D  Bm G A 
Of the Moonlight Motel 



Verse: 3 

D                       Bm 
Last night I dreamed of you, my lover 
        G                                             A 
And the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers 
      D                     Bm 
Of my lonely bed, I woke to something you said 
          G                                               A 
That it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved 
G                       D 
As I drove, there was a chill in the breeze 
           Bm               Bm/A    G 
And leaves tumbled from the sky and fell 
     D                Bm 
On a road so black as I backtracked 
       G   A       D  Bm 
To the Moonlight Motel 
        G                           D 
She was boarded up and gone like an old summer song 
Bm             Bm/A  G 
Nothing but an empty shell 
  D                          Bm 
I pulled in and stopped into my old spot 


Instrumental: G A Bm 


           G                       D 
I pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag 
               Bm             Bm/A   G 
Poured one for me and one for you as well 
            D                                 Bm 
Then it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot 
       G   A       D  Bm G A D 
To the Moonlight Motel