The Altar Boy And The Thief chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Dm7Dm7           G7G7
At night in the safety of shadows and numbers
Dm7Dm7            G7G7
Seeking some turf on which nothing encumbers
  Dm7Dm7          G7G7
The buying and selling of casual looks
Dm7Dm7            G7G7
Stuff that gets printed in x-rated books
   A minorAm               G+G
Your mother might have tried to understand
       A minorAm             G+G
When you were hardly your daddy's little man
    Fmaj7Fmaj7        G+G
And you gave up saluting the chief
  G7sus4G7sus4      C majorC   Dm/C     C majorC
To find yourself some relief

Dm7Dm7             G7G7
Finely plucked eyebrows and skin of satin
Dm7Dm7          G7G7
Smiling seductive and endlessly Latin
 Dm7Dm7      G7G7
Olympic body on dancing feet
A minorAm           G+G
Perfume thickening the air like heat
 A minorAm            G+G
A augmentedA transient star of gay bar fame
  A minorAm               G+G
You quit your job and changed your name
      Fmaj7Fmaj7      G+G
And you're nearly beyond belief
  G7sus4G7sus4      C majorC   Dm/C     C majorC
As you hunt down a little relief

  Dm7Dm7            G7G7
The seven foot black with the emerald ring
Dm7Dm7           G7G7
Broke up a fight without saying a thing
    Dm7Dm7           G7G7
As the cops cruised by wanting one more chance
  A minorAm           G+G
To send Jimmy Baldwin back over to France
   A minorAm           G+G
And a trucker with kids and a wife
  A minorAm             G+G
Prefers to spend half of his life
  Fmaj7Fmaj7      G+G
In early Bohemian motif
    G7sus4G7sus4       C majorC   Dm/C    C majorC
Playing pool and getting relief

  Dm7Dm7         G7G7
My favorite couple was looking so fine
Dm7Dm7          G7G7
Dancing in rhythm and laughing in rhyme
    Dm7Dm7           G7G7
In the light of the jukebox all yellow and blue
A minorAm          G+G
Holding each other as young lovers do
  A minorAm          G+G
To me they will always remain
  A minorAm          G+G
Unshamed, untamed, and unblamed
  Fmaj7Fmaj7       G+G
The altar boy and the thief
G7sus4G7sus4          C majorC   Dm/C  C majorC
Grabbing themselves some relief

  A minorAm        G+G
The altar boy and the thief
G7sus4G7sus4       C majorC   G7G7  C majorC
Catching a little relief

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