Intro (8 bars): G D C } played 4 times

VERSE:		
G                   C
"Do you know who I am?" said Bill Haley
G                      D
in a pancake house near the Rio Grande
G                       C
the waitress said, "I don't know you from diddley"
G          D                G    C
"To me you're just another tired old man"

VERSE2:	
He walked alone down on Main street
a hot wind was blowing up from the south
there were two eyes staring in a pawn shop window
and a whiskey bottle was lifted up to his mouth

CHORUS:		
C                 D              G
there was no moon shining on the Rio Grande
C             D              G
as a truck of migrants pulled through town
C          D             G   D/F# Em D
and the jukebox was busted at the bus de - pot
C                 G D C G D C 
when Haley's Comet hit the ground

VERSE3:	
He blacked out all the windows in his bedroom
he was talking to the ceiling and the walls
he closed his eyes and hit the stage in 1955
as the screams of the children filled the hall

repeat CHORUS

VERSE 4:	
This cop walked into a pancake house in Texas
and ordered up a couple of cups to Go
and he tells the waitress, "Hey, I just found the body
of some guy who was famous long ago"

final CHORUS uses G D C  pattern played 4 times - same as Intro

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Intro: G  Em

G                      D         Dsus4     C
She's waiting for me when I get home from work
C                G     Gsus4
But things just ain't the same
G                  D            Dsus4     C
She turns out the light and cries in the dark
C                   D
Won't answer when I call her name
(chorus)
C              D              G     E D C
On the stairs I smoke a   cigarette alone
C                    D               Dsus4
The Mexican kids are shooting fireworks below
G             Em
Hey, baby, it's the Fourth of July
G             Em
Hey, baby, it's the Fourth of July
(same as first verse)
She gives me her cheek when I want her lips
And I don't have the strength to Go
On the lost side of town in a dark apartment
We gave up trying so long ago
(repeat chorus)
C           D            E D C
Whatever happened, I   apologize
C                  D
So dry your tears and baby, walk outside
D          G
It's the Fourth of July

(repeat chorus)

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D
He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
D                          Em
might have been a bluebird, I don't know
but he got stone drunk and he talked about Alaska
A           D
salmon boats and 45 below
well he got that blue wing at Walla Walla
and his cellmate was a Little Willy John
Willie, he was once a great blues singer
so Wing & Willie wrote him up a song

REFRAIN/CHORUS:
(no chord)         D          G
sang, it's dark in here, can't see the light
 D                   A
but I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes
 D         G
and I fly away, beyond these walls
 D                   A
up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
 D    G A  D
on a poor man's dreams
well they broke blue wing in August in 1963
and blue wing moved on, picking apples in the town of Wenatchee
winter finally caught him in a rundown trailer park
on the south side of Seattle where the days grow long and dark
and he drank and he dreamt a vision
of when the seven still ran free
and his father's fathers crossed that wide old Bering sea
the land belonged to everyone, there were old songs yet to sing
now, it's broken down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing
now, it's dark in here...

(repeat REFRAIN/CHORUS)

well he drank his way to heaven and that's where he died
and no one knew his Christian name, and there was no one
there who cried
but I dreamt that there was a service,
a preacher in an old pine box
and halfway through the service, the wing began to talk
he said, it's dark in here...

(repeat REFRAIN/CHORUS)

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