Key: C major
Verse 1
Csus2
G
this heat can't last
Csus2
C
She flips back to shut ters,
G
Em
A
C
her calico flutters in the breeze
Csus2
C
Csus2
C
Csus2
G
Seven years gone by
Dm
C
A stranger kicked her door in
Dm
C
While rain kept pouring
Dm
C
He raped her from midnight
A
C
light through the trees
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
There was no arrest,
Dm
C
not much investigation,
Dm
C
And no compensation
Dm
C
Her spirit bruised and broken,
Em
A
C
her heart full of unspoken memories
Dm
C
For all the ragged sisters
Dm
C
The house paint blisters
Dm
C
The temperature's so vicious
A
C
And wishes it would freeze
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
She's too dug in to leave,
Dm
C
too free to have a plan,
Dm
C
And too young to un derstand
Dm
C
In the never never land
Em
A
or ask the weatherman for guarantees
C
G
At the alibi
Dm
C
She keeps her nightly vigil
C
G
But still they try
Dm
C
And wind up in frustration
Em
A
C
She gets her reputation as a tease
But her blood runs 99 degrees
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
One night he blows in,
Dm
C
he sits there and eyes her
Csus2
G
over ten slow gins
Dm
C
He don't recognize her
C
Em
And she offers him a ride
Am
C
and he agrees
C
G
high along the ridge above the timber line
Dm
G
C
As they cross the one lane bridge
Dm
C
His fin gers clutch the vinyl,
Em
A
C
her smile is the fi nal thing he sees
Csus2
C
Dm
As she turns the wheel 99 degrees
Interlude 1
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
Em
A
C
G
C
Verse 2
A
C
her prophecies
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
when the day hits 99 degrees?
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
C
G
Dm
G
Dm
Dm
Outro 1
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