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Donald and Lydia chords by
John Prine
John Prine

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Verse 1
C

Small town, bright lights,
F
C

Saturday night

Pinballs and pool halls
D
G

flashing their lights
C

Making change behind
F

the counter in a penny arcade
C

Sat the fat girl daughter
G

of Virginia and Ray
C
Verse 2


Lydia
F
C

Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat
D
G

Behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat
C

She read romance magazine
F
C

up in her room

And felt just like Sunday on
G

Saturday afternoon
C
Verse 3

F
C

But dreaming just comes natural
G
C

Like the first breath from a baby
F
C

Like sunshine feeding daisies
G

Like the love hidden deep
Interlude 1

in your heart
C
F
C
F

Verse 4
C

Bunk beds, shaved heads,
F
C

Saturday night

A warehouse of strangers
D
G

with sixty watt lights
C

Staring through the ceiling,
F
C

just wanting to be
G
C
F

Lay one of too many, a young PFC
Verse 5
C

Donald
F
C

There were spaces between Donald
F
C

and whatever he said
D
G

Strangers had forced him to live in his head
C

He envisioned the details
F
C

of romantic scenes

After midnight in the stillness
G

of the barracks latrine
C
Verse 6
F
C

But dreaming just comes natural
G
C

Like the first breath from a baby
F
C

Like sunshine feeding daisies
G

Like the love hidden deep

in your heart
C
F
C
Verse 7
F

C
F
C

Hot love, cold love, no love at all
D
G

A portrait of guilt is hung on the wall
C
F
C

Nothing is wrong, nothing is right
G

Donald and Lydia made love that night
C
Verse 8
F

C
F

Love
C

The made love in the mountains,
F
C

they made love in the streams

They made love in the valleys,
D
G

they made love in their dreams
C

But when they was finished there
F
C

was nothing to say

'Cause mostly they made love
G

from ten miles away
C
Verse 9

F
C

But dreaming just comes natural
G
C

Like the first breath from a baby
F
C

Like sunshine feeding daisies
G

Like the love hidden deep in your heart
Outro 1
C
F
C

F
C

F
C
F
C
F
C
C
F
C

F
C
C
C
F
C
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