estelle chords by
Dan Bern

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Key: G major

Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was painting a still life this morning
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Of a throat loz enge sitting
on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
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The only thing weird about
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it is that a year ago
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I never thought I'd paint anything again
I decided I wasn't ever gonna paint again
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It didn't bother me  too much,
Warhol's dead
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David Hockney's still alive,
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I don't need to paint

Verse 2
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I painted over ten thousand paintings
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Sad ones, funny ones,
dark ones and light ones
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I've done haystacks and rich
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old ladies by their pools
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Wearing nothing but a scarf
I've painted everything
there was to paint
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Now it was time to  sit back,
give interviews
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Get on the internet, hang
out at club med
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Take stock of what I've done

Verse 3
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You know, the best friend
I ever had was a dog
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It sounds like a cliche unless it's
happened to you
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Some days that dog was the only
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reason I even got out of bed
That dog went everywhere with me and then
I heard the crack addicts
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Were stealin' dogs and selling
them for animal research
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It sounded like an urban myth to me like the
mouse in the Coke bottle
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But I started leavin'
her at home after that

Verse 4
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You know, Paula was my
wife for a while
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She ran off to Paris with the
great grandson of Van Gogh
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A cartoonist who did fashion
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graphics for Le Monde
When Paula left she took my dog,
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I never saw her again
Except in the court during the
custody battle
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She won and got to keep the dog
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And I didn't speak to any
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one for months

Verse 5
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You know sometimes it feels
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Like there's so  much
that you need
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Sometimes the world is
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upside down
Sometimes it seems like the
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only thing you need
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Bm Bm 2
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Is holdin' someone's hand as
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you walk through town
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Verse 6
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I started hanging around with Dino
He used to run a poker
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game back east
Now he has a little coffee shop,
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sells cappuccino to his old pals
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Tommy, Chicago and Jimmy
the Wig and Ugly Rose

Verse 7
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You know the best person I ever knew
Was a Mormon woman named Estelle
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She still calls me drunk every few months
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And asks me stuff I
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don't want to talk about
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You can't talk to her long unless
you're drunk yourself
Then we go all night
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Verse 8
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Yeah she goes, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby, why
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Have you turned your back on love?
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You had so many chances
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Why have you let 'em all go by?"

Verse 9
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Well, one morning I was sitting out in
front of Dino's place
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With Jake the Shears,
a guy from Philly who gives free mohawks
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There were a couple of young painters,
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I was hopin' to come by
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So I could give 'em some advice

Verse 10
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Yeah, I was sittin' there
updating my list of enemies
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When this girl walks in and
the universe kind of stops
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Turned out she drank
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the same tea as me
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Don't take more than that to start
a conversation sometimes
She believed collage was the greatest
of all the arts
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And was busy pasting pictures of horses,
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next to ads for laundry soap
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Next to Mohammed Ali,
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she had a turquoise in her ear
And said Rachmaninoff was
always in her head

Verse 11
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But later that day I was trying to describe her
to Jimmy the Wig
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I couldn't find any words and I realized
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I'd started to sketch her chin
Somehow it didn't look right,
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I scratched it out and tried it again
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I filled an entire pad, I threw it away,
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I never even came close

Verse 12
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For a six days I sat at Dino's place
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The rain wouldn't quit and
no one came in
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Finally on the seventh day it
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cleared and in she walked
I asked her to sit with me and
I bought her a cup of tea
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And I asked her to model for
me sometime
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That afternoon I was at a canvas
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She was wearing a yellow dress
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I swore if she let me, I'd get it right

Verse 13
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I've painted over ten
thousand paintings
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Sad ones, funny ones,
dark ones, and light ones
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But sitting there,
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it was like I couldn't even write my own name
I apologized and said, "It's
been a few months
If you have patience,
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I'll get the hang of it again"
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In the next few weeks,
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I painted her hundreds of times
If I get the nose right, the chin's too long
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If I get 'em both right, the face is too thin
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But I keep after it and one day I, I'll get
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it all right

Interlude 1

Verse 14
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I painted a still life this morning,
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of a throat lozenge
Sitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
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The only thing was funny is that
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I never thought I'd paint anything again
I think I might go visit Estelle
Those Utah mountain
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s are good for the soul
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I'll bring my brushes and some Jack Daniels
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And we can make up for lost time

Verse 15
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And she said, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
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Baby why have you turned
your back on love
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You had so many chances
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Why have you let 'em all
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go by?"

Verse 16
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And she says, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
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Baby why have you turned
your back on love
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You had so many chances
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G G 
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Why have you let 'em all go by?"

Verse 17
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Sometimes it seems like there's so
much that you need
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D D 
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Sometimes the world is
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upside down
Sometimes it seems like the
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only thing you need
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Is holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town

Outro 1
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