Gulf Moon

	  		Intro: G D/F# Em C C D G 

Verse: 
G                  D/F# 
A corner dive down on the square 
           Em                 C 
Where the windows hang with a neon flare 
                D 
Regulars shoot horse and pool 
           G 
While the barmaid wishes the place half full 
                          D/F# 
She works the jar with a discount flirt 
   Em           C 
A faded Houston Oilers shirt 
                        D 
While an old crow sings down on the stage 
G                         D/F# 
Thumbing the chords on a crinkled page 
   Em                      C 
He plays his Zevon tune 
D 
Beneath a gulf moon 

Instrumental: G D/F# Em C C D G 

Verse: 
G                D/F# 
Take a walk down along the wall 
          Em                C 
You'll go right on past the carnival 
                      D 
Hand in hand with the keeper kind 
G 
The kind that ties to the ties that bind 
                   D/F# 
Don't care for the carnie man 
       Em                  C 
Or the fortune teller that reads your hand 
                       D 
You just beeline for a bungalow 
           G 
Where the curtains flutter 
    D/F# 
And candles glow 
                Em     C 
In the heart of June 
D                  G 
Beneath a gulf moon 

 
D                 G 
And here I'm on a midnight porch 
C 
Looking up at a butane torch 
D                   G 
That hangs behind a black expanse 
      C                 Em 
Where stars flicker and planets dance 
          D               G 
And it's probably time I pack it in 
       C 
With a glass half-full of Jameson 
          Em 
Well I was born to croon 
          C 
I might as well 
D 
Beneath a gulf moon 


Instrumental: G D/F# Em C C D G 

Verse 
G 
Down by the jetty 
        D/F# 
Near the Balinese Pier 
     Em                          C 
The curmudgeons drink the yellow belly beer 
                          D 
And they bitch about the price of gas 
         G 
And the fish that they can't seem to catch 
                             D/F# 
They blame it on the islands way down south 
          Em              C 
From the bayou marsh and the delta mouth 
                                 D 
Where the choppers roll and the tankers come 
      G                  D/F# 
In a midnight daze for the oil drum 
     Em                    C 
They can't leave too soon 
D 
Beneath a gulf moon