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Old America chords by 
Tom Russell
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Verse 1
G
Yeah, those angels of mercy
C
used to sing and beg down in
Pershing
Square,
G
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.
G
I was born in the city of angels
in the late 1940s, down on
Hope
C
Street, near
Pershing
Square and
Clifton's cafeteria in the pantry and all
G
them old strip joints on 5th and
Main.
You know, tonight,
White
C
Fury and her twin 44s,
Charles
Bukowski territory, beat outsider
America
G
and the music that's been lost from that time,
taken off the radios.
C
You had to have been there.
G
The backdrop is
MacArthur
Park and
Hollywood
Court
Apartments and racetracks.
The old
C
America when music still resonated through nightclubs,
people gambled and drank
and screwed and smoked.
G
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
C
and the chain stores hadn't sunk
G
in so deep. I thought,
you know the best person to read these memories would have been
C
Little
Jack
Horton.
He was a circus midget who actually used
to drink with
Bukowski back in the 1950s.
G
Then I find out
Little
Jack
Horton's still alive and living in
Gidtown,
Florida with
C
all the old -time carnies and circus people.
G
So why the hell do we need any
fake
Hollywood tough guys here?
Here today, gone tomorrow,
C
boys in masks, flim
flamers, magazine faces.
G
We don't need them.
Little
Jack
Horton was the king of the carnival,
C
the voice of the great
American
G
Midway, a voice that sounds like ukulele icon laughing gas,
the real thing.
He's been shot out of cannons,
C
he did the pass of death on a
Shetland pony, he rode
the four walls of eternity on a motorcycle,
G
appeared in movies like
The
Terror of
Tiny
town at one -eyed
Jack's with
Marlon
C
Brando, and he wrote poetry.
This is a true
G
American voice from the sawdust
C
backlots of the old world.
I saw little
Jack a little while ago,
G
gave him some cassette tapes and a cheap cassette
recorder and asked him to read some
of these pages on
Charles
C
Bukowski memories.
Real low -fidelity
Americana the way it used to be.
G
C
Ladies and gentlemen, it's matinee time.
G
Here's little
Jack
C
Gsus4
G
Horton.
C
Thank
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