Jack Kerouac

F#
He got the droop of a fatherless 
child
Almost imperceptible, one 
                            G#m  
can’t see it with the naked 
     B
eye
      F#
Oh but I can

That cardboard lady in the corner 
store

Her sparkle is all painted on
Six no-good men took her shine and 
 G#m       B
more
                          F#
Left her youth near Sausalito

CHORUS:
             G#m         B
Oh it’s humourless and comical
 at once
Continues after the ad
F#                        C#
Always being a stranger wearing the 
last town’s dust
             G#m   B     F#
Oh it’s humourless, it’s
 humourless

VERSE:
F#
They look me over, one up and one 
down

I can tell they’re wondering 
who my people are
          G#m          B
I say I’m new in town
                           F#
I know it’s gonna take a while

CHORUS:
            G#m          B
Oh it’s humourless and comical
 at once
F#                        C#
Always being a stranger wearing the 
last town’s dust
              G#m   B    F#
Oh it’s humourless, it’s
 humourless

VERSE:
F#
I speculate and browse the duraflame

Winter in the west coast cool
Out by the sea where no one knows my
 G#    B
 name
                      F#
I’m on the road like Jack 
Kerouac
Like Jack, Jack Kerouac
Like Jack, Jack Kerouac
Like Jack, Jack Kerouac