Beat Folk chords by Tom Russell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C   F   C   G   C   F   C  G  C

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

Instrumental:
C     F   C   G   C   F   C  G  C

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

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

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