Rockefeller Druglaw Blues chords by The Felice Brothers

Chords with lyrics

The Felice Brothers - Rockefeller Druglaw Blues

capo 2nd fret


G+G          D MajorD              C majorC         G+G
The exhaust from the prison van?s going to heaven but I?m going to Attica
G+G        D MajorD      C majorC            G+G
Gonna put a hundred miles between me and my dealing habit

G+G       D MajorD       C majorC            G+G
I?m watching Poughkeepsie move by in the afternoon rain
G+G       D MajorD        C majorC            G+G
My hands are turning blue from these cuffs they got me in

E minorEm   G+G

G+G     D MajorD     C majorC        G+G
I tried to keep my job at the dollar store
G+G        D MajorD        C majorC            G+G
Found out my mama was sick and a dollar wasn?t enough no more

G+G      D MajorD       C majorC          G+G
I promise you mama, I?m gonna get you them pills
G+G      D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
I got me a box of bags And a baker?s scale

E minorEm     G+G
15 grams of heroin
E minorEm     G+G
An ounce of speed
C majorC  D MajorD    G+G
15 years to life
C majorC      G+G       E minorEm
Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller
C majorC         G+G
That?s a long old time


G+G          D MajorD           C majorC        G+G
My brother was shot down on Warren Street a year ago tonight
G+G          D MajorD          C majorC        G+G
Can?t you see the medics with his body in the siren light

G+G       D MajorD       C majorC      G+G
I promise you, brother, I?m gonna be a good dad
G+G          D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
I?ma give our children something like we never had

E minorEm     G+G
15 grams of heroin
E minorEm     G+G
An ounce of speed
C majorC  D MajorD    G+G
15 years to life
C majorC      G+G       E minorEm
Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller
C majorC         G+G
That?s a long old time

G+G           D MajorD       C majorC       G+G
Twenty boys in orange clothes in the jailhouse yard
G+G    D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
Twenty needle marks on the arms of God

G+G    D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
500 picketers this morning on the governor?s lawn
G+G    D MajorD           C majorC      G+G
50 white stars, my darling, in the milky dawn


E minorEm     G+G
15 grams of heroin
E minorEm     G+G
An ounce of speed
C majorC  D MajorD    G+G
15 years to life
C majorC      G+G       E minorEm
Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller
C majorC         G+G
That?s a long old time