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  From: "Kean, John" <keanj@agresearch.cri.nz>

  Subject: CRD: Safe Side - James McMurtry

  Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:29:23 +1300

  

  Safe Side  - James McMurtry

  ~~~~~~~~~

  >From "Candyland"

  

  Transcribed by John Kean.

  

  Open-D tuning (DADF#AD).

  

  

  INTRO: (strum)

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    D                                                           G   A

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  VERSE 1:

  D                D6sus4

   Down in Piedras Negras

  D                    D6sus4

   You gotta watch yourself

  D                             D6sus4

   There's a whole lotta hungry people

  D                      D6sus4

   Looking to share some wealth

  D                         D6sus4

   And when the oil field's busted

  D                     D6sus4

   And the peso takes a dive

  D             D6sus4

   Stay off the side streets

  D                    D6sus4

   If you want to come back alive

  

  

  CHORUS 1:

  A11/E

   Yo no busco nada

  A11/E

   I'm just standing here

  A11/E

   Minding my own business

  A11/E

   Gonna get back out of here

  D (intro riff)

   Back to the safe side

  

  

  VERSE 2:

   At the base of the bar stool

   There's a drain in the floor

   You better not go in there

   If you don't know what that's for

   It's no place to take a lady

   She'll get the evil eye

   Sizing up their prospects

   Sharpening up their knives

  

  

  CHORUS 2:

   No me gusta nada

   Yo no quiero ver

   Once I get across this river

   I'm never gonna go back there

   I'm staying on the safe side

   Staying on the safe side

  

  

  SOLO: (chords as for chorus)

  

  

  CHORUS 3:

   Yo no fumo mota

   No lo quiero ver

   Once I get across this river

   I'm never gonna go back there

  

  

  VERSE 3:

   Up in San Antonio

   All the pretty people know

   They better stay off the west side

   Where the black tar flows

   So they hide in sheltered enclaves

   Up around Olmos Park

   They've got their own policemen

   So they can stay out after dark

   Back down in Piedras Negras

   The children play with dirt

   We keep our pistols loaded

   So we don't get hurt

  

  

  CHORUS 4: (repeat and fade)

   No importa a nadie

   It's always been that way

   It's never gonna get no different

   Long as we've got our say

   We stay on the safe side

  

  

  CHORDS:

  D       000000

  G/A     x0555x

  G       5555xx

  A       7777xx

  D6sus4  020100

  A11/E   202100

  

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   John Kean

   keanj@agresearch.cri.nz

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