When Sal's Burned Down chords by Dar Williams
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Are we the fools for being
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suprised that a silence could end with no sound
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Like the silent movie era, like with snow,
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like when Sal's burned down
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Well, yeah, there was noise,
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but nothing to mark the passing on
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Of that great unspoken
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chance we had found
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Where the night's end came,
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well- trod and familiar
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Like the Charlie Chapin walk that fades
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to black
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And there wasn't anyone
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trying to sell their souls
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They were only trying to
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buy them back
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They were only trying to
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buy them back
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Verse 2
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Well, yeah, there was a Sal,
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he walked with bulging pockets 'round town
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Either he was up to no good or he just got
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excited watching things burn down
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Well I guess he got the idea if you hold
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a chunk of gold in your hand now
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For once in your life you can
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throw some weight around
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And Sal, you slimeball sell- out,
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how can we blame you?
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We all want something to put
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our fingers on
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And you never know the true
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throne that you've lost
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Till the vinyl barstools are
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gone
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Till the vinyl barstools are gone
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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If you toss around some word
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s you might say that
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Sal was carrying a torch for the mob
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But the mob's gone too, yeah,
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the only sign of them left
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Is on every screen at the multiplex,
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and we go there, no prob, hey
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'Cause there ain't no cowboys
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in this Connecticut town
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No, not anymore, no,
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not since Sal's burned down
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Once you'd dip your tin cup down
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in the muse's watering hole
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Or pioneer a new patch
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Then you'd lie on your time-
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traveled bedroll
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Quite amazed at the
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expansive terrain
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And if anyone said that you'd never have fame and fortune,
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just that bar
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You know you'd ride that
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way again
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I bet you'd ride that way again.
When Sal's Burned Down
Dar Williams
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