Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (EÂ AÂ DÂ GÂ BÂ E)
🎸 Intro:
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD E minorEm x 2
🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm C majorC
Is it a mean streak? You'd swear, you'd swear
D MajorD E minorEm
We'd never seen a stranger 'round here
E minorEm C majorC
Is it the way the dust clings to the air?
D MajorD E minorEm
But you'd swear, you'd swear
🎸 Verse 2:
E minorEm C majorC
Is it a mean streak? A augmentedA desolation sound
D MajorD E minorEm
A augmentedA copy of desire, oh nothing's that far down
E minorEm C majorC
A augmentedA mean streak on a western swing
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
On TV saying the damnedest things
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
A augmentedA meanstreak, you'd swear, you'd swear
E minorEm
We'd never seen a stranger round here
C majorC
It's the way the dust clings to the air
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
After a stranger's been there
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
You'd swear, you'd swear
🎸 Interlude:
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Was that you there?
🎸 Verse 3:
E minorEm C majorC
Is it a mean streak? To a certain degree
D MajorD E minorEm
You come whistling down the crookedest street
C majorC
A augmentedA mean streak in the ghost state
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Between the certain and the hesitating
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
A augmentedA meanstreak, you'd swear, you'd swear
E minorEm
We never seen a stranger round here
C majorC
It's the way the dust clings to the air
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
After a stranger's been here
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
You'd swear, you'd swear
🎸 Bridge 1:
C majorC
Was that you there?
E minorEm
That was you there
C majorC
Was that you there?
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
That was you there
🎸 Interlude:
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
🎸 Bridge 2:
F#F# C majorC
The shh-shh sound of the bottoms of their boots
E minorEm
On the tops of the grass
C majorC E minorEm
As their haywagon rolled past
🎸 Outro:
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
And I'd swear, I'd swear
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
The way the dust clings to the air
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm
After the stranger's been here
G+G E minorEm
I'd swear, I'd swear
C majorC E minorEm G+G E minorEm
That that was you there
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD E minorEm x8