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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:55:02 -0500
From: email protected(Jamison Ruoff)
EVERY STRANGER'S EYES from The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, 1984.
When I play this, it sounds pretty good when you embellish slightly on the
C, Am, and G chords (for instance I'll just hammer-on the D string for the
C & Am, and on the A for the G chord. Listen to the record and you'll hear
This is how I remember it...
In Ctruck stops, and hamburger joints,
AmIn Cadillac limosuines, in the company of
DmHas-beens and bent-backs
GAnd sleeping forms on pavement steps,
In Clibraries and railway stations,
DmIn the pages of history
And Gsuicidal cavalry attacks I recognizeC Am
FMyself in Gevery stranger's Ceyes.
And in Cwheelchairs by monuments,
AmUnder tube trains, commuter accidents,
DmIn council care and county courts,
GAt Easter fairs and sea-side resorts,
CIn drawing rooms and city morgues,
In award-winning Amphotographs of life-rafts on the China Seas,
In Dmtransit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps,
GAnd faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognizeC Am
FMyself in Gevery stranger's Ceyes.
And Cnow, from where I Amstand, upon this Dmhill I've plundered from the pGool
I look aCround, I search the Amsky, I Dmshade my eyes so nearly Gblind
And I've seen Csights of half-reC/Gmembered Amdays, I hear bells that Fchime in
I recognize Fthe hope you Gkindle in your CeyesF G G D EmmAm
CIt's oh, so easy now, as we Flie here in the Gdark
Nothing interferes, it's obvious how to beat the tears that threaten to