Guy Clark
Cold Dog Soup
From: Cold Dog Soup (1999 - Sugar Hill Records)

Capo 3. Fret key of Bb

Intro: (Am) (G) (F) (E7)

(Am)William Butler Yeats in jeans
(G)Got up to play guitar and sing
(F)In some joint in Mission Beach(E7)last night
(Am)At the door sat Tom Waits
(G)In a prok pie hat and silver skates
(F)Jugglin' three collection plates,(E7)Jesus Christ

(Am)Townes Van Zandt standin' at the bar
(G)Skinnin' a Hollywoodd movie star
(F)Can't remember where he parked his car
(E7)Or to whom he lost the keys
(Am)Full of angst and hillbilly haiku
(G)What's a poor Ft. Worth boy to do
(F)Go on rhyme something for em' man
(E7)Show em' how you really feel

Chours:

(F)Aint no money in(C)poetry
(G)That's what sets the(Am)poet free
(F)I've had all the(C) freedom I can(G) stand
(F)Cold dog soup and (C)rainbow pie
(G)Is all it takes to(Am) get me by
(F)Fool my belly till the(C)day I die
(G)Cold dog soup and(Am)rainbow pie

(Am)Ginsberg and Kearouac
(G)Shootin' dice playin' Ramblin' Jack's(F)guitar
With the cowboy paintin'(E7)pickguard on it
(Am)And they sat in the back and they drank for free
(G)And rhymed orange with Rosalie
(F)Now there's a pride of lions(E7)to draw to

Chours:

(F)Aint no money in(C)poetry
(G)That's what sets the(Am)poet free
(F)I've had all the(C) freedom I can(G) stand
(F)Cold dog soup and (C)rainbow pie
(G)Is all it takes to(Am) get me by
(F)Fool my belly till the(C)day I die
(G)Cold dog soup and(Am)rainbow pie


Well I made a mistake when I posted this some time ago. I wrote that the capo should be on the 1. fret. But that's wrong, the correct way to ply it is in the key of Bb, with a capo on the 3rd fret.

- Jan