Tonalité : D major
Intro 1
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Bb
C
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Verse 1
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Bb
Let him roll, Lord, let him roar
C
He always said that heaven
Bb
was just a Dallas whore
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Verse 2
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He was a wino tried and true
Bb
Done about everything there is to do
C
He worked on freighters,
and he worked in bars
Bb
F
He worked on farms, and he worked on cars
Verse 3
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It was white Port put that look in his eye
Bb
That grown men get when they need to cry
C
We sat down on the curb to rest
Bb
F
And his head just fell down on his chest
Verse 4
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He said, "Every single day it gets"
Bb
Just a little bit harder to handle and yet
C
And he lost the thread,
and his mind got cluttered
Cm
Bb
And the words just rolled
F
off down in the gutter
Verse 5
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He was elevator man in a cheap hotel
Bb
In exchange for the rent
on a one room cell
C
And he was old in years, beyond his time
Bb
Oh, thanks to the world and
F
the white Port wine
Verse 6
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So he says, "Son"
He always called me son
C
F
Bb
He said, "Life for you has just begun"
C
Then he told me the story
I'd heard before
Bb
F
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
Verse 7
F
He could cut through the years
to the very night
Bb
That it all ended in a whore house fight
C
And she turned his last proposal down
Bb
F
In favor of being a girl about town
Verse 8
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Now it's been seventeen
years right in line
Bb
And he ain't been straight
none of the time
C
It's too many years of
fightin' the weather
Bb
F
And too many nights of not being together
Interlude 1
So he died
F
Bb
C
Bb
F
Verse 9
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And when they went through
all his personal affects
Bb
In among the stubs from
the welfare checks
C
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
Bb
And an address in Dallas
F
and nothin' more
Verse 10
F
The welfare people provided the priest
Bb
And a couple from the mission
down the street
C
Sang Amazing Grace and no one cried
Bb
'Cept some lady in black
F
way off to the side
Verse 11
F
C
We all left, and she's standing there
F
Bb
Black veil coverin' her silver hair
C
And ol' one- eyed John
said her name was Alice
Bb
F
She used to be a whore in Dallas
Verse 12
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C
F
Bb
Let him roar, Lord, let him roll
C
F
I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul
Bb
Let him roll, let him roar
C
He always said that heaven
Bb
F
was just a Dallas whore
Verse 13
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C
F
Bb
Let him roar, Lord, let him roll
C
I bet he's gone to Dallas,
Outro 1
rest his soul
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Bb
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Bb
C
Bb
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C
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