Six Oclock News chords by John Prine

Chords with lyrics

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			Six O'Clock News - John Prine
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Tuning: Standard

Artist: John Prine
Album: John Prine
Year: 1971


G+G      E minorEm C majorC         G+G
Wanda had a baby in nineteen fifty one.
G+G        E minorEm       C majorC        D MajorD
The father was a stranger and a stranger was the son.
C majorC           D MajorD   C majorC          D MajorD
Call that child james lewis, call these rooms a home.
G+G         C majorC   D MajorD        G+G
Changing all them diapers polish all that chrome.
C majorC     D MajorD           G+G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me

G+G       E minorEm    C majorC        G+G
All around the schoolyard playing all the games
G+G         E minorEm      C majorC            D MajorD
Running, laughing back and forth the kid with two first names
C majorC        D MajorD   C majorC     D MajorD
Stranger in the closet, lock the diary
G+G          C majorC   D MajorD       G+G
The past is running faster singing harmony
C majorC     D MajorD           G+G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me


G+G       E minorEm   C majorC           G+G
God bless this kitchen said the knick-knack shelf
G+G         E minorEm  C majorC        D MajorD
The dinners almost ready go and wash yourself
C majorC       D MajorD   C majorC          D MajorD
Jimmys growing up now and wandas growing old
G+G         C majorC   D MajorD            G+G
The time is growin shorter the nights are long and cold
C majorC     D MajorD           G+G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me


G+G        E minorEm  C majorC          G+G
Sneaking in the closet and through the diary
G+G         E minorEm    C majorC           D MajorD
Now, dont you know all he saw was all there was to see
C majorC         D MajorD  C majorC         D MajorD
The whole town saw jimmy on the six oclock news
G+G           C majorC    D MajorD           G+G
His brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes
C majorC     D MajorD           G+G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me
C majorC     D MajorD           G+G
Cmon, baby, spend the night with me