Bakersfield chords by Vic Chesnutt

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A minorAm    G+G
FF     A minorAm  E MajorE
A minorAm    G+G
FF     A minorAm  E MajorE

Verse:

  A minorAm      G+G      FF   A minorAm E MajorE
Well, a-souvenirs on my dusty shelf

    A minorAm            G+G       FF   A minorAm E MajorE
Well I get out the Tarn-X, and I polish them myself

  A minorAm            G+G          FF  A minorAm E MajorE
Yes posters are falling, but who needs them at my age

     A minorAm          G+G       FF   A minorAm E MajorE
Well I’ve learned to smile when all I feel is rage

Bridge:

   A minorAm         G+G        E MajorE      FF
So I think I will go to Bakersfield with Gabriel and Paul

      A minorAm       G+G          E MajorE        FF   FF
And I will hide behind the garbage can while the holy platitudes fall

Chorus:

  C majorC           G+G
And blow the gates, I am a-coming through

    A minorAm        D MajorD
With my albatrosses and all

     A minorAm        D MajorD
And it's strategy not protocol

     A minorAm        D MajorD
Yes it's strategy not protocol

        FF   FF
That brings me here

Outro:
A minorAm    G+G
FF     A minorAm  E MajorE
A minorAm