A Town Called Luckey chords by Rilo Kiley

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Bbm

Intro:

Bbm Gb (10x)

Verse 1:
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Happy birthday, you're halfway to 60
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You have no land of your own, a job you despise
          Gb
And a lover that's mean
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And you started noticing a disturbing thing
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Birds eating other birds just beyond the screen
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So you packed up your things and hopped on the freeway headed east
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And you drove for eight days aimlessly

Chorus 1:
Gb
Telling yourself to be humble
             Ab
Singing to yourself to be free
   Gb                      Ab
Being full aware that it's a middle-age crisis type thing

Verse 2:
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And you drove 'til you saw a sign for a town called Luckey
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Spelled L-U-C-K-E-Y
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Where the sugar towers rise to line and meet the streets (meet the streets)
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Checked into a motel, slept on cardboard sheets
               Gb7      Ab
That covered the bloodstained mattress underneath
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Went to the local bar and you got yourself a drink

Chorus 2:
Ebm          Ab
Telling yourself to be humble
Db     Ab       Bb
Singing to yourself to be free
    Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing

Interlude:
Bbm Gb (2x)

Verse 3:
Gb     Bbm              Gb
It was the most ragtag group you had ever seen
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A slender man with a moustache on both sides nothing in between
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Looking like a preacher's son who had given into the devil-worshipping scene
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He was a real looker and he bought you a drink
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And you proceeded to tell him everything
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And you were getting a bit hysterical it seemed
  Gb                   Ab
You laughed like a carburetor and then you screamed
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All the doubt and the disbelief

Chorus 3:
Ebm          Ab
Telling yourself to be humble
Db     Ab       Bb
Singing to yourself to be free
    Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing

Bridge:
    Bbm           Gb
And he told you how he came to be
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As an altar boy by his father's knees
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And how he came to lose his faith
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There was no touching but advances were made
               Gb7      Ab
And his father's hand in slow motion it was approaching him
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And the doubt and disbelief crept over his young heart like the black ocean

 Gb               Ab
A stormcloud, a hurricane if you will
 Gb           Ab Bbm
A stormcloud, a hurricane

Chorus 4:
Ebm          Ab
Telling yourself to be humble
Db     Ab       Bb
Singing to yourself to be free
    Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing

Outro:
Ebm   Ab  Db    Ab  Bb
Go home late, find yourself happy
      Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's just a middle-age crisis type thing
    Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing
    Gb   Eb7 Ab   Fm  Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing

   Ebm7    Ab     Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing
   Ebm7    Ab     Db  F7
It's a middle-age crisis type thing
   Ebm7    Ab     Bbm
It's a middle-age crisis type thing