Donald And Lydia
John Prine
Continues after the ad
Key:
C F C Small town bright lights Saturday night,D7 G7 Pin balls and pool halls flashing their lightsC F C Making change behind a counter in a penny arcade,G7 Sat the fat girl daughter ofC Virginia and Ray (spoken) LydiaF C Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat,D7 G7 behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fatC F C She read romance magazines up in her roomG7 And felt just like Sunday onC Saturday afternoon (Chorus)G7 F C G7 But dreaming just comes naturalC like the first breath from a babyContinues after the adC7 F C G7 Like sunshine feeding daisies,C Like the love hidden deep in your heartC F C Bunkbeds shaved heads Saturday nightD7 G7 A ware house of strangers with sixty watt lightsC F Staring though the ceiling justC G7 C wanting to be, lay a one of to many a young PFC (spoken) DonaldC F C There were spaces between Donald and what ever he saidD7 G7 Strangers had forced him to live in his headC F C He envisioned the details of romantic scenes after midnight in the stillness ofG7 C the barrack's latrine (repeat chorus) Hot love, cold love, no love at all,C a portrait of guilt is hung on theF C D7 G7 wallC F C Nothing is wrong, nothing isG7 C right, Donald and Lydia made love that night (spoken) LoveG7 C F They made love in the mountains ,C they made love in the streamsD7 They made love in the valleys ,G7 they made love in their dreamsC F But when they were fininshed , there was nothing to sayC G7 C 'Cause mostly they made love fromC7 ten miles away (repeat chorus)