Beat Folk chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
C majorC  FF  C majorC  G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse:
C majorC
Champagne don't drive me crazy
FF
Cocaine don't make me lazy
C majorC               G+G
Ain't nobody's business but my own
C majorC
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker
    FF
You can take all the liquor down in Costa Rica
C majorC       G+G        C majorC
Ain't nobody's business but my own

Instrumental:
C majorC   FF  C majorC  G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse:
(spoken)
C majorC
(Yeah, take it down a little)
C majorC
I discovered Buck Owens and Bob Dylan on the same night
     FF                          C majorC
On an old wooden, tube driven radio that belonged to my uncle, George Malloy
     G+G                         C majorC
I thought Buck and Bob were some new form of hillbilly, beat folk music
  FF                           C majorC
And then someone turned me on to the writings of Charles Bukowski
         G+G            C majorC
And his column, 'Notes Of A augmentedA Dirty Old Man' in Open City newspaper
                 FF
And later on I'd actually meet Bukowski on Hollywood and Vine
              C majorC          G+G C majorC
Out on the street and we'd start to correspond
 C majorC
'Course at the Astro, there was Ramblin' Jack Elliot
                       FF
Me and Sylvia, Light and Hopkins, Mad Flipson
                    C majorC
Later on I'd see Gram Parsons, melting country and rock
      G+G           C majorC
At the old Charlie Kaplan studios on La Brea
                     FF
With Dave Van Ronk out east, the Growling Minstrel
                     C majorC               G+G
Whose voice would roar above the drunken din at the White Horse Tavern
          C majorC
Where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death
C majorC
Man, a night in Dave Van Ronk's apartment, wow

Verse:
C majorC
Well, champagne don't drive me crazy
FF
Cocaine don't make me lazy
C majorC               G+G
Ain't nobody's business but my own
C majorC
Yeah, candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker
    FF
You can take all the liquor down in Costa Rica
C majorC       G+G        C majorC
Ain't nobody's business but my own

Outro:
Let's dig it now
C majorC       G+G        C majorC
Ain't nobody's business but my own