Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A) Intro: C Cmaj7 Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F A:--3-------2-------0------0-------3---| E:--0-------0-------1------1-------0---| C:--0-------0-------2------0-4-2-4-0---| G:--0-------0-------2------2-------0---| Verse 1: C Cmaj7 Dm F I kicked in his door at 5am, I've come for my bike I told the repo man C Cmaj7 Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F My 920's gonna take me far today you can travel for miles and never leave LA Chorus: C Em Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, I've come 500 miles today C Em Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, and never even left L.A. Verse 2: C Cmaj7 Dm I drive by the Plaza where the gay boys pose, standing in their windows F C Cmaj7 Wearing no clothes, I heard the screams of the dying dark Dm F Through the sweet green icing of Macarthur Park C Cmaj7 Dm F And then I crossed the river into East L.A., "Pescada mojada me encontre." C Cmaj7 Dm F I'm giving up on rock 'n roll and I’m saving up for norteno’ C Cmaj7 Dm F The river she runs by the railroad tracks, I swear I'll never take it back C Cmaj7 Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F A train she cries on the midnight hour, all along the Watts tower Chorus: C Em Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, I've come 500 miles today C Em Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, and never even left L.A. Verse 3: C Cmaj7 Dm F I gunned it down to San Pedro Bay, watched my ship sail in watched her sail away C Cmaj7 Dm F The sun was sinking in to the sea, but a ball of fire inside of me C Cmaj7 Dm F It was burning my motor, driving me hard, past the big hair on the boulevard C Cmaj7 Dm F Up Mullholland where I made the scene, like the one that took little Jimmy Dean C Cmaj7 Dm F I shimmied up Wilshire like a little silkworm, past the rodeo and the pachyderm C Cmaj7 Dm F I stopped for coffee at an art café, I saw the repo man and made my getaway C Cmaj7 Dm F Doing the Eagle Rock, heading for the hills, oh, trying to let my engines cool C Cmaj7 And it's not my fault, that this town shakes, Dm F I saw the falling rocks and I hit my brakes Chorus: C Em Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, I've come 500 miles today C Em Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, and never even left L.A. Bridge: C Dm Now you tow it to the repo man's front door F Dm And you give him these keys I don't need them no more C Dm You tow it to the repo man's front door F Dm And give him these keys I don't need them no more Chorus: C Em Dm F I come a long way, I come a long way, I've come 500 miles today C Em Dm F C Cmaj7 Dm F C I come a long way, I come a long way, and never even left L.A.
