White Houses

A G D E x 2

A               G                
White houses in neat little rows 
   D                    E
contrasting against the sky
A                         G      
Tumbled down black shacks over 
         D                         
the tracks children so hungry they 
    E
could cry
    A                    G        
The chrome the steel the metal 
   D                     E
dream leaving the teepee to rot
      A                 G         
The escapist young mind left 
         D                   E
behind saving dimes for community 
pot

                A        G D
You better get straight
E                  A         G
Better, better get straight
D E                    A        
I mean you better get straight 
           G
right now
D                  E             
Better get it, you better, better
      A             G D E
 get straight babe


        A                   G     
They're crying out for love all 
                D                  
the time but they fail to see their
          E

neighbours eyes
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    A        G                
The TV is on 6 o'clock news the 
  D                         E
channel's in full colored lies
    A                  G       
The company meets, the President 
              D                
speaks he's young but his bones 
   E
creak
      A                    G  
Young girl dresses for the high 
                       D           
school dance and the guy next door 
     E
is dyin'
for a peek


    A        G
Get straight
    D       E                    
You better, yeah, you better get 
A               G
straight babe
  D        E                  A  
Oh did you get what I said, I 
           G
said to you
     D        E                   
That you, you better, you better 
   A
get angry
    G           D                 
You better, you better get 
   E
straight



SOLO (32 bars)


           A                     
They put a bible in the drawer of 
     G                   D        
the motel room and it's crying out
        E
 to be read
       A                    G     
But it stays right there 
               D                   
collecting dust, no one understands
     E
 what's being said
A                   G           
Lovers make love in comfy boxes,
D                   E
 what will tomorrow bring
             A                     
        G                  D
           E
They've been told that it's wrong 
but they don't give a damn, soon 
another
life it will bring


               A              G
You better get straight baby
D    E                    A     
Yeah you, you better get 
        G
straight baby
D             E               A 
Oh and I think I better get 
                  G
myself to get it babe
                D           E     
You know what I mean I been bent 
            A G
so very long
        D                  E
I wanna fly right, I wanna do it 
alright