Truckload of Art chords by
Terry Allen

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Once upon a time
D D 
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Sometime ago back on the east coast
C C 
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In New York City, to be exact
G G 
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A bunch of artists and painters and
Sculptors and musicians and
Poets and writers and dancers
And architects
D D 
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G G 
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Started feeling real superior
To their ego counter parts
C C 
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Out on the West Coast,
G G 
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They all got together and decided
They would show those
snotty surfer upstarts
A thing or two about the Big Apple
And they hired themselves a truck
D D 
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It was a big spanking new
white-shiny
C C 
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Chrome-plated cab-over
Peterbilt
G G 
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With With With mud flaps, stereo,
TV, AM & FM radio,
D D 
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G G 
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Leather seats and a  naugahide sleeper
All fresh
C C 
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G G 
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With new American Flag
decals and "ART ARK"
Printed on the side of the door
With solid 24 karat gold leaf type
And they filled up this truck
With the most significant piles
D D 
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And influential heaps of Art Work
C C 
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To ever be assembled in Modern Times,
G G 
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And it sent it West no chide
Cajole, humble and humiliated
D D 
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the Golden Bear.
G G 
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And this is the true story of that truck
A Truckload of Art
C C 
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G G 
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From New York City
D D 
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Came rollin down the road
C C 
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Yeah the driver was singing
G G 
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And the sunset was pretty
But the truck turned over
D D 
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G G 
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And she rolled off the road
C C 
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Yeah a Truckload of Art
G G 
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Is burning near the highway
Precious objects are scattered
D D 
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All over the ground
C C 
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And it's a terrible sight
G G 
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If a person were to see it
But there weren't nobody
D D 
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around

Interlude 1

Verse 2
G G 
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Yeah the driver went sailing
C C 
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G G 
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High in the sky
D D 
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Landing in the gold lap of the Lord
C C 
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Who smiled and then said
G G 
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"Son, you're better off dead
Than haulin a truckload
D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Full of hot avant-garde
D D 
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C C 
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[Chorus]
G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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Yes...an important artwork
C C 
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Was thrown burning to the
G G 
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ground
D D 
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Tragically...landing in the weeds
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And the smoke could be seen
G G 
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Ahhh for miles all around
D D 
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G G 
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Yeah but nobody... knows what it means
C C 
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Yes... a Truckload of Art
G G 
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Is burning near the highway
And it's a tough job for
D D 
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the highway patrol
C C 
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Ahhh they'll soon see the smoke
G G 
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An come runnin to poke
Then dig a deep ditch
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G G 
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And throw the arts in a hole

Interlude 2

Verse 3
C C 
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Yeah a Truckload of Art
G G 
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Is burning near the highway
D D 
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And it's raging far-out of of control
C C 
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And what the critics have cheered
G G 
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Is now shattered and queered
And their noble reviews
D D 
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Have been stewed on the road
G G 
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[Chorus]

Outro 1
G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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C C 
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G G 
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