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E F#
Turned out she drank the same tea as me
B
It don't take more than that to start a conversation sometimes
B
She believed collage was the greatest of all the arts
C#m
And was busy pasting pictures of horses
E
Next to ads for laundry soap
F#
Next to Mohammed Ali
B
She had a turquoise in her ear
B
And said Rachmaninoff was always in her head
C#m
Later that day I was trying to describe her to Jimmy the Wig
E
I couldn't find any words
F# B
And I realized I'd started to sketch her chin
B
Somehow it didn't look right
C#m
I scratched it out and tried it again
E
I filled an entire pad
F# B
I threw it away, I never even came close
B
For six days I sat at Dino's place
C#m
The rain wouldn't quit and no one came in
E F#
Finally on the seventh day it cleared
B
And in she walked
B
I asked her to sit with me
And I bought her a cup of tea
C#m
And I asked her to model for me sometime
E
That afternoon I was at a canvas
F#
She was wearing a yellow dress
B
I swore if she let me, I'd get it right
B
I've painted over ten thousand paintings
C#m
Sad ones, funny ones, dark ones, and light ones
E F#
But sitting there, it was like I couldn't even
B
Write my own name
B
I apologized and said, "It's been a few months
C#m
If you have patience, I'll get the hang of it again"
E F# B
In the next few weeks, I painted her hundreds of times
B
If I get the nose right, the chin's too long
C#m
If I get 'em both right, the face is too thin
E F#
But I keep after it and one day
B
I get it all right
[harmonica solo]
B C#m E F# B
B C#m E F# B
B
I painted a still life this morning
C#m
Of a throat lozenge
sitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
E
The only thing that's funny
F#
Is I never thought
B
I'd paint anything again
B
I think I might go visit Estelle
C#m
Those Utah mountains are good for the soul
E
I'll bring my brushes
F#
And some Jack Daniels
B
And we can make up for lost time
B
She said, "Why baby, why baby, why baby why?
C#m
Have you turned your back on love
E
You had so many chances
F# B
Why do you let 'em all go by?
B C#m
Why baby, why baby, why baby why?
Have you turned your back on love
E
You had so many chances
F# B
Why do you let 'em all go by?"
B D#m
Sometimes it seems like there's so much that you need
E D#m B
Sometimes the world is upside down
B D#m
Sometimes it seems like the only thing you need
E D#m C#m E B
Is holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town