Color In You Cheeks

Dbm         Abm       A         
   She came in on the redeye to 
B
dallas-fort

E               Abm      A 
worth.  All the way from sunny 
       B
taipei.

E           Abm        A      B
   Skin the color of a walnut shell,
 And a

E            Abm          A     
baseball cap      holding down 
         B
her black hair. And she came

A    A        B         B
here    after midnight.

E            E                E 
     The hot weather made her 
            E
feel right at home. Come on

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in,          we haven't slept for 
 A
weeks. Drink some of

E       E         A             
this.   it'll put color in your 
B
cheeks.



Dbm               Abm         A 
    He drove from in from 
    B
mexicali, no worse for wear.

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E            Abm   A          B
    Money to burn,    time to kill. 
but

E       Abm     A              
   five minutes looking in his eyes 
B
and we all

E           Abm           A     
knew he was broken pretty bad, 
     B
so we gave him what we

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had.  We cleared a space for him 
   B                B
to sleep in, and we let the

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silence that's our trademark     
   E                 E
   make its presence felt. Come on

E       E       A                
in,          we haven't slept for 
 A
weeks. Drink some of

E       E         A             
this.   it'll put color in your 
B
cheeks.


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Dbm Abm A   B
E (One octave Up)   B


Dbm             Abm       A      
      They came in by the dozens, 
 B
walking or crawling.

E              Abm           A  
     Some were bright-eyed.     
           B
 Some were dead on their feet.

E                 Abm        A  
    And they came in from 
            B
zimbabwe, Or from soviet,

E                    Abm         
georgia.  East saint louis, or 
   A              B
from paris, or they lived across the
 street.

A             A                  
     But they came, and when 
   B                B
they'd finally made it here, It was 
the

E                   E     E     
least that we could do to make 
           E
our welcome clear.  Come on

E       E       A                
in,          we haven't slept for 
 A
weeks. Drink some of

E       E         A             
this.   it'll put color in your 
B
cheeks.