My Friend

Chords-intro(G7 D7 G7 C G7 D7,) (G C
 F F# G)2X, B Em Em/D C
G Bb/F C/E C#dim Edim Gdim 

A#dim, G B/F# Em Em/D C F G

Spoken during intro-"You all pass me
 that bottle. I'll sing
you a real song."

         G               C7       
Well I'm looking through Harlem, 
          F              F#     G
my stomach squeals just a little 
more.
     G                 C/E        
The stagecoach full of feathers 
                   F        
and footprints rolls up to my 
F#      G
soapbox door.
      B/F#                     
Now a lady with a pearl handled 
              Em     Em/D     C
necktie tied to the driver's fence
G              Bb/F C/E         
breathes in my face bourbon and 
                      C#dim Edim 
coke possessed words,
Gdim A#dim

           G            B/F#     
"Haven't I seen you somewhere in 
Em       Em/D   C       F   G
hell, or was it just an accident?"

(play first two measures of intro 
and say)
"You know how I felt then"

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Before I could ask if it was the 
east or the west side
my feet they howled in pain. The 
wheels of a bandwagon
cut very deep but not as deep in my 
mind as the rain and
as they pulled away I could see her 
words staggering falling
on my muddy tent. Well I picked them
 up and brushed them off
to see what they said - you wouldn't
 believe it. "Come around
to my room with the tooth in the 
middle and bring along a
bottle and a president."
     B/F#                     
And sometimes it's not so easy 
             Em   Em/D      C
'specially when your only friend
G      B/F#            Em        
talks, sees, looks and feels like
Em/D      C           F       G
 you. You do just the same as him.
(play intro and say)
"It gets very lonely out here in 
this room baby"


Well I'm riding through L.A. on a 
bicycle built for fools.
And I see one of my old buddies and 
he says "You don't
look the way you used to do." And I 
say "Some people look
like a coin box." He says, "You look
 like you don't have
any coins to spare And I lay back 
and thought to myself
And I said this as I picked up my 
pride from beneath the
pay phone and combed his breath 
right out of my hair.

>Chorus

I just got out of a Scandinavian 
jail and I'm on my
way straight back to you but I feel 
so dizzy I take
a quick look in the mirror to make 
sure my friends here
with me. And you know good well I 
don't drink coffee
so you fill my cup with sand and the
 frozen TV's on the
barroom sharing it's sticks around 
the broken edge and
my coat that you let your dog by the
 fire on. And your
cat he attacks me from his pill box 
ledge and I thought
you were my friend too man my shadow
 comes around before
you.

>Chorus