Dark Side Of Town

	  		Eliza Gilkyson - Dark Side Of Town 



N.C.       C                  F 
He was the black sheep of the family 
        C                F 
How did mama's pride and joy 
       C                F 
Go from such a precious baby 
       G 
To the devil's poster boy 


          C                  F 
I'm gonna slick my hair like Elvis 
        C                F 
Roll my cuffs like Jerry Lee 
       C                  F 
If the backbeat's born in hell 
                G 
Then that's the place I want to be 



              F         C 
I'm gonna be a midnight rider 
      F              C 
Gonna burn my candle down 
F              C 
Following that driving beat 
       Am           F     C  F  C  F 
To the dark side of town 



         C                F 
From the barrooms of Deep Elam 
     C                F 
To a crash-pad on the Bay 
   C                  F 
He spiralled slow and steady down  
  G 
A lonely blue highway 

  
          C                  F 
I'm gonna chase my beer with whiskey 
        C            F 
Stick a needle in my skin 
          C             F 
I'm gonna celebrate the mystery 
       G 
Of the hole I've fallen in 



            F         C 
'Cause I'm a midnight rider 
      F              C 
Gonna burn my candle down 
F              C 
Following that driving beat 
       Am           F     C  F  C  F 
To the dark side of town 



   C                F 
He loved that funky music 
   C                  F 
He knew the back road scenes 
      C            F 
Every barbeque and blues band 
        G 
Between here and New Orleans 


C               F 
He put down the bottle 
  C            F 
October Eighty-nine 
C               F 
Eased up on the throttle 
G 
Bought him a little time 


            F         C            
But he was a midnight rider 
   F                  C 
He burned that candle down 
F                   C 
Hangin' out on easy-does-it street 
       Am           F     C  F  C  F 
On the dark side of town 



C              F 
Big Al settled down along 
    C              F 
The banks of Onion Creek 
       C            F 
With a pickup and a hound dog 
     G 
And a little lucky streak 


   C                   F 
He nursed that fragile frame 
            C              F 
Through the hurricanes and drought 
         C                F 
It was a summer wind that came in 
    G 
And blew the candle out 


Chorus: 
               F         C 
'Cause he was a midnight rider 
   F                  C 
He burned that candle down 
F              C 
Following that driving beat 
       Am           F     
To the dark side of town 



                 C 
Oh, you midnight rider 
  F                  C 
I know you're still around 
F              C 
Hangin' out on easy street 
       Am           F     C  F  C  F 
On the dark side of town 



OUTRO:  C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F