Still Playin’ chords by Sam Baker

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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We used
to call them the dark pigs
Busking on the corner
of the masquerade
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Walkin' round playin' guitar in the rain
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And singin' on the street
as they come and go
Killin' long hours when the
crowds were slow
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Reachin' for the high notes
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As the world runs down the drain
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Hot summer,
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the streets are thronged at midnight
There's poetry and song
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havin' sound
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Ringing out under the wa ter
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And I've been S .F. roaming the town
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Learning how to play and
sing and make a sound
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On the hard, hard as the fog rolls
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round the door I still play
And judging every note I play
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The only request I heard all night was
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Can you sing far, far away?
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Playin' cocaine blues for an hour or two
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Payday, baby, let me lay it on you
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I'm stealin' back to my
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good ol' youth, babe
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Don't ever write your name
on a jailhouse wall
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I ain't gonna give you
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no more cherry ball
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Won't you make me down
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a pallet on your floor?
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Oh, that'll never happen no more
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Still play after everyone has gone
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Stayin' up and layin' down
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A strawberry room still playin'
That same sweet melody
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For a hundred years or more
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Till everyone's gone free
He's a broken hearted
cowboy with a blue guitar
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And he sings so quiet,
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did you come here to cry?
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Come on man,
it's North Beach Saturday night
They're pouring down the sidewalks
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under the
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I'm up  in the room with a J -45,
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I'm waiting on a wire,
wondering how to survive
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with a scrap of yellow
paper and a broken pen
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Older now, never thought I'd be with more
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responsibility and I know I'll pay play again
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still play for monkeys wearing crowns
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still play hand -me -down my
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hand -me -down
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Playin' cocaine blues for an hour or two
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Payday, baby, let me lay it on you
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Now I'm stealin' back to
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my good old used pay
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Don't ever write your name
on a jailhouse wall
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I ain't gonna give you no more
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cherry ball
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Won't you make me down
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a pallet on your floor
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Oh, that'll never happen no more
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Still playin' after everyone has gone
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Stayin' up and layin' down,
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strawberry rum
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Baug 
Still playin' that same sweet melody
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For a hundred years or more
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Till everyone's gone free
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Still playin'
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Still playin'
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