The Ballad Of Edward Abbey

	  		
Intro: Am 

verse 1 
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It was in the town of Tucson in Nineteen Eighty-Three 
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A man named Edward Abbey come a walking up to me 
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He pulled his cigar from his mouth, said, "I smell lawyers here" 
                        F          G               Am 
The politician, running-dogs, they crawled away in fear 


              G 
Singing do-ra-do 
              Am 
Singing do-ra-day 



verse 2 
                        F      G                Am 
Ed walked across the desert at least a thousand times 
                        G                  Am 
He spoke with javelina, slept 'neath piñon pine 
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And if he saw a billboard there, he'd chop that bastard down 
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Said, if a man can't piss in his own front yard, he'd never keep close to town 

 
              G 
Singing do-ra-do 
              Am 
Singing do-ra-day 
      F             C          E7              Am 
Lord, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today 



verse 3 
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Ed had a taste for women, in fact he married quite a few 
                                          G            Am 
He said, "I'd fall in love, boys, but I'm only passing through 
                                   G                  Am 
You know I like 'em all, boys, and some more than the rest 
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I've tried my hand at monogamy, now I'm off to save the west 


              G 
Singing do-ra-do 
              Am 
Singing do-ra-day 



verse 4 
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Ed died one day at sundown in his Tucson riding shack 
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They wrapped him in a sleeping bag and drove him way out back 
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Beneath the wild saguaro, the coyotes chewed his bones 
                    F           G                   Am 
And on a hidden marker, was 'No Comment', carved in stone 


              G 
Singing do-ra-do 
              Am 
Singing do-ra-day 
      F             C          E7              Am 
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today 



Verse 5 
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Now I'm living in the desert, but the town is a-closing in 
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Those cracker box developments, Ed would call a sin 
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We stole this land from the Mexican and now we'll sell it back 
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And they'll live like mortgage prisoners in those goddamn housing tracts 


Verse 6 
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Tell me, who votes for the mountain lion, tell me, who votes for the fox 
                                  G                  Am 
Who votes for the spotted owl who hides there in the rocks 
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I wish that Ed would come again with a chainsaw in his hand 
                               F          G                Am 
And carve all up those housing tracts and take on back the land 


              G 
Singing do-ra-do 
              Am 
Singing do-ra-day 
      F             C          E7              Am 
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today