Late For Dinner

	  		
 

verse 1 
Am                                G 
Sheppard served in Pharaoh's Army Nineteen sixty-eight  
F                  G            Am 
Came home with his body parts intact  
                             G 
Spent a year inside his room smoking cigarettes 
F             G             Am 
Never talked about it after that  


verse 2 
                              G 
Shep and I got married on the day Nixon resigned 
F                G        Am 
Honeymooned down Mexicali way  
                                     G 
Sometimes when he held me tight he'd look like he was blind  
   F            G              Am 
Or staring at a graveyard far away 

 
          C                            G 
And if he blew in through that doorway today  
       Dm                     A  G 
Like a long-forgotten echo of winter  
  C                                  G 
I don't know if I'd shoot him in the face  
F           G              Am 
Or tell him that he's late for dinner 


verse 3 
                                         G 
For thirteen years my love grew for this solitary man  
      F                 G            Am 
Who reacted strong when anyone would cross me  
                             G 
With hard looks, fisticuffs, if it came to that  
F                 G                   Am 
He did the little things that said he loved me  


verse 4 
                                            G 
And in the morning he would cook for me and drop me off to work  
F              G                 Am 
Kiss me on the cheek to start my day  
                                    G 
There was no warning the last time, he would not come no more  
      F              G            Am 
There was no time to memorize his face 


          C                            G 
And if he blew in through that doorway today  
       Dm                     A  G 
Like a long-forgotten echo of winter  
  C                                  G 
I don't know if I'd shoot him in the face  
F           G              Am 
Or tell him that he's late for dinner 



Verse 5 
Am                                 G 
Now I almost went to look for him, but couldn't find the nerve  
F                   G                  Am 
Something there did not sit right with me  
                         G 
I realize this battle is not what I deserved  
        F          G              Am 
Chasing Israelites through parted seas 

 
          C                            G 
And if he blew in through that doorway today  
       Dm                     A  G 
Like a long-forgotten echo of winter  
  C                                  G 
I don't know if I'd shoot him in the face  
F           G              Am 
Or tell him that he's late for dinner