The Bullet Big D

A         E
On Monday Dealey Plaza fills
A   E   C#m
with people on the way
A                    E
to the court houses and meeting 
rooms
C#m  E  D
but me, I'm free today


D                E
And I traced the path the motorcade
A         D
took back in sixty-three:
D         E          A       D
past the grassy knoll into the book 
depository.
A      D       A        D
They put in a museum where they say 
the shots were fired.
A          D
It's closed today but I don't mind;
E
I'm already getting tired.


A            E
There's photographs and headlines
A     E    C#m
and diagrams of the street.
A      E
They’re showing the Zapruder film;
C#m   E    D
it's always on repeat.


D          E
Last night I dreamt I was the bullet
A     D
from frame 313;
D     E     A       D
the one that scattered his head 
around the limousine.
A       D         A        D
I was right there for his final 
thoughts of John John and Jackie
D     E      A
and oh my God Big D.

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Interlude:
A, A, A, E, D, x4

A     E     A    E      C#m
Back then everybody worried further 
to the south.
A      E    C#m    E     D
Missiles screamed across Miami, 
trail and fall out.
D       E      A     D
Teachers drilled their students 
hiding underneath their desks
D      E       A     D
to fear the twitchy trigger finger 
of old Krushchev.
A      D       A       D
But Cuba couldn't kill nobody, not 
like Dallas could.
A     D     E
When I was growing up there, I 
understood



A        E
Remember when I’d pick you up
A     E  C#m
outside your mothers house?
A           E       C#m     E   
The two of you were fighting, and we
   D
 promised we'd get out
D         E         A          
Out far from the narrowness and the 
D
confines and the doubt.
D     E          A      D
We'd leave behind all that we know 
and never turn around.
A        D       A         D
Cut the strings and tear away from 
all that kept us down
D   E    A
and oh my god big D

Interlude:
A, A, A, E, D, x4

A, E,
A, E, C#m,
A, E,
C#m, E, D,
D, E, A, D,
D, E, A, D,
A, D, A, D,
A, D,E,

A    E    A    E  C#m
Now I fly out of Laguardia, or out 
of JFK
A   E   C#m  E  D
and I land at DFW and I drive down 
LBJ
D      E       A     D
and the houses and the shopping 
centers, don't make me afraid.
D     E      A      D
Why they ever did, it's hard now to 
explain
A     D      A      D
But you, you never really left, for 
you was it the same?
D   E     A
And oh my god Big D

Interlude:
A, A, A, E, D, x4

A   E    A    E   C#m
November 22nd I was at the kitchen 
sink
A      E     C#m E   D
Just like everyone remembers where 
they were in ’63.
D        E         A       D
The shudder that shot through me 
with that unexpected call.
D        E    A      D
I locked the bathroom door and hit 
my fist against the wall.
A         D      A         D
I should of come to rescue you, I 
should have should have yes
A      D    E
What happened in the past ten years,
 I coulda guessed


A    E     A    E   C#m
Remember when I’d carry you, and lay
 you in your bed?
A    E   C#m  E D
And promised to take care of you, 
but I just left instead.
D     E    A     D
Last night I dreamt I was the pills 
you swallowed down.
D     E       A      D
I tried to come back up, but you 
wouldn't let me out.
A     D   A     D
And I couldn't help but wonder, did 
think of me?
D    E   A
and oh my god big D