Key: C major
Verse 1
Esus2
B
this heat can't last
Esus2
E
She flips back to shut ters,
B
G#m
C#
E
her calico flutters in the breeze
Esus2
E
Esus2
E
Esus2
B
Seven years gone by
F#m
E
A stranger kicked her door in
F#m
E
While rain kept pouring
F#m
E
He raped her from midnight
C#
E
light through the trees
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
There was no arrest,
F#m
E
not much investigation,
F#m
E
And no compensation
F#m
E
Her spir it bruised and broken,
G#m
C#
E
her heart full of unspoken memories
F#m
E
For all the ragged sisters
F#m
E
The house paint blisters
F#m
E
The temperature's so vicious
C#
E
And wishes it would freeze
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
She's too dug in to leave,
F#m
E
too free to have a plan,
F#m
E
And too young to un derstand
F#m
E
In the never never land
G#m
C#
or ask the weatherman for guarantees
E
B
At the alibi
F#m
E
She keeps her nightly vigil
E
B
But still they try
F#m
E
And wind up in frustration
G#m
C#
E
She gets her reputation as a tease
But her blood runs 99 degrees
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
One night he blows in,
F#m
E
he sits there and eyes her
Esus2
B
over ten slow gins
F#m
E
He don't recognize her
E
G#m
And she offers him a ride
C#m
E
and he agrees
E
B
high along the ridge above the timber line
F#m
B
E
As they cross the one lane bridge
F#m
E
His fin gers clutch the vinyl,
G#m
C#
E
her smile is the fi nal thing he sees
Esus2
E
F#m
As she turns the wheel 99 degrees
Interlude 1
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
G#m
C#
E
B
E
Verse 2
C#
E
her prophecies
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
when the day hits 99 degrees?
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
E
B
F#m
B
F#m
F#m
Outro 1
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