Drunken Poets Dream chords by Ray Wylie Hubbard

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G   G/C  G+G (2X)


Verse 1:
G+G          Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
I got a woman who's wild ass wrong
  G+G           Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
She likes bein' naked and gazed upon
  G+G           Cadd9Cadd9    G+G
She crosses a bridge, she sets in on fire
  G+G           Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
She lands like a bird on a telephone wire

Chorus:
D MajorD
I'm gonna hollar and I'm gonna scream
Cadd9Cadd9         G+G
 I'm gonna get me some mescaline
  D MajorD
And then I'm gonna rhyme that with 'gasoline'
              G+G Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
It's a drunken poet's dream


Verse 2:
       G+G            Cadd9Cadd9     G+G
There's some money on the table and a pistol on the floor
   G+G         Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
A augmentedA few paperback books by Louis L'Amour
    G+G             Cadd9Cadd9    G+G
Whisky bottles are scattered like last night's clothes
   G+G             Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
With cigarettes and papers and Oreos


Verse 3:
  G+G          Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
My harmonica has got a busted reed
  G+G           Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
My lips are chapped and about to bleed
   G+G            Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
She says that's nothing, when she was a kid
  G+G              Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
She danced with the Dead at the pyramids

Chorus:
D MajorD
I'm gonna holler and I'm gonna scream
C/GC/G           G+G
 I'm gonna get me some mescaline
D MajorD
Then I'm gonna rhyme that with gasoline
              G+G   Cadd9Cadd9  G+G  D MajorD
it's a drunken poet's dream    oooh   ooh


Harp break:
G+G      Cadd9Cadd9 G+G (4X)


Verse 4:
     G+G         Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
Now I'll never pay back my student loan
G+G            Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
Smelling like Coors and cheap cologne
  G+G              Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
She tells me not to worry about Judgment Day
     G+G
She says dyin' to live in heaven just ain't our way


Chorus:
D MajorD
I'm gonna holler and I'm gonna scream
Cadd9Cadd9           G+G
 I'm gonna get me some mescaline
D MajorD
Then I'm gonna rhyme that with gasoline
              G+G  Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
It's a drunken poet's dream    oooh


Outro:
G+G          Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
I got a woman who's wild ass wrong
  G+G           Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
She likes bein' naked and gazed upon