Baton Rouge chords by
Lou Reed
Lou Reed

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Key: G major
Verse 1
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When I think of you baton rouge
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I think of a mariachi band
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I think of sixteen and a crisp
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green football field
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I think of a girl I never had
Verse 2
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When I think of you baton rouge
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I think of a back seat in a car
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Windows are foggy and so are we
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As the police asked for our i.d.
Verse 3
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So helpless
Verse 4
So helpless
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Ooohhh, ooohhh, so helpless
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Ooohhh, so helpless
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Ooohhh, so helpless
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So helpless
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Well I once had a car
Verse 5
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lost it
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in a divorce
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The judge was a woman of course
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She said give her the car and the
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house and your taste
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Or else I set the trial date
Verse 6
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So now when I think of you
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baton rouge
And the deep southern
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belles with their touch
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I wonder where love ends and
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hate starts to blush
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In the fields in the swamps in the rush
Verse 7
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In the terra-cotta cobwebs cob
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webs of your mind
When did you start seeing me as
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a spider spinning web
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Of malicious intent and you as poor,
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poor me
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At the fire at the joint,
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this disinterred and broken mount
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In the bedroom in the house
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where we were unmarried
Verse 8
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So helpless, so helpless
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So helpless
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So helpless, so helpless
So helpless
Verse 9
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When was I the villain in your heart
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Putting the brake on your start
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You slapped my face and cried
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and screamed
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That's what marriage came to mean
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The bitterest ending of a dream
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Verse 10
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You wanted children and I did not
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Was that what it was all about
You might get a laugh when you
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hear me shout
You might get a laugh when
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you hear me shout
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I wish I had
Verse 11
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So helpless, so helpless
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So helpless
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So helpless, so helpless
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So helpless
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Sometimes when I think
Verse 12
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of baton rouge
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I see us with two and a half
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strapping sons
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One and a half flushed daughters
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preparing to marry
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And two fat grandsons I can
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barely carry
Verse 13
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Daddy, uncle, family
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gathered there for grace
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A dog in a barbecue pit goes up in space
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The dream recedes in the morning
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with a bad aftertaste
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And I'm back in the big city worn
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from the race of the chase
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What a waste
Verse 14
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So thanks for the card the an
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nouncement of child
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And I must say you and sam look great
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Your daughter's gleaming in that -
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- white wedding dress with pride
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Sad to say I could never bring
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that to you that wide smile
Verse 15
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So I try not to think of baton rouge
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Or of a, of a, of a mariachi band
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Or of sixteen and a crisp
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green football field
And the girl,
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and the girl I never had
Verse 16
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So helpless, so helpless
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So helpless
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So helpless, so helpless
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So helpless

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