Racing In The Street chords by Townes Van Zandt
Verse 1
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I got a sixty- nine Chevy
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with a 396*
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
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She's waiting tonight
down in the parking lot
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Outside the Seven- Eleven store
Me and my partner Sonny built
her straight out of scratch
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And he rides with me from
town to town
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We only run for the money,
got no strings attached
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We shut 'em up and than
we shut 'em down
Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
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I wanna blow 'em off in my
first heat
Summer's here and
the time is right
For racin' in the street
We take all the action we can meet
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And we cover all the northeast state
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When the strip shuts down we
run 'em in the street
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From the fire roads to the
interstate
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Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
Some guys come home
from work and wash up,
And go racin' in the street.
Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
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I wanna blow 'em all out
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of their seats
Calling out around the world,
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we're going racin' in the street.
I met her on the strip three years ago
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In a Camero with this dude from L.A.
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I blew that Camero off my back,
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And drove that little girl away,
But now there's wrinkles
around my baby's eyes
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And she cries herself to sleep at night
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When I come home the
house is dark
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She sighs, "Baby did you
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make it all right,"
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She sits on the porch of
her Daddy's house
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But all her pretty dreams are torn,
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She stares off alone into the night
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With the eyes of one who
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hates for just being born
For all the shut down strangers
and hot rod angels,
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Rumbling through this promised land
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Tonight my baby and me,
we're gonna ride to the sea
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And wash these sins off our hands.
Tonight, tonight the highway's bright
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Out of our way, mister you best keep
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'Cause summer's here
and the time is right
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For racin' in the street.
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Racing In The Street
Townes Van Zandt
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