Key: G major•
Verse 1
Pershing
Square,
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L .A.
Voices that haunted me and still do,
lost nightmare
Jesus sounds coming out of the coins
C
G
C
rattling in a cup from two blind ladies.
in the late 1940s, down on
Hope
Pershing
Square and
Clifton's cafeteria in the pantry and all
Main.
You know, tonight,
White
Charles
Bukowski territory, beat outsider
America
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and the music that's been lost from that time,
taken off the radios.
MacArthur
Park and
Hollywood
Court
Apartments and racetracks.
The old
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America when music still resonated through nightclubs,
people gambled and drank
and screwed and smoked.
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People went down to the border and sipped highballs
and cocktails and went to the bullfights.
The old
America where the big guilt and political correctness
you know the best person to read these memories would have been
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Little
Jack
Horton.
He was a circus midget who actually used
to drink with
Bukowski back in the 1950s.
Little
Jack
Horton's still alive and living in
Gidtown,
Florida with
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all the old -time carnies and circus people.
fake
Hollywood tough guys here?
Here today, gone tomorrow,
flamers, magazine faces.
Little
Jack
Horton was the king of the carnival,
American
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Midway, a voice that sounds like ukulele icon laughing gas,
the real thing.
He's been shot out of cannons,
Shetland pony, he rode
the four walls of eternity on a motorcycle,
The
Terror of
Tiny
town at one -eyed
Jack's with
Marlon
This is a true
I saw little
Jack a little while ago,
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gave him some cassette tapes and a cheap cassette
recorder and asked him to read some
of these pages on
Charles
Real low -fidelity
Americana the way it used to be.
G
C
Ladies and gentlemen, it's matinee time.
Jack
C
Gsus4
G
Horton.
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Thank
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C Gsus4
G
C
Gsus4
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