Mickey Newbury

The 33Rd Of August

Mickey Newbury


Tom: D

D
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
                            G
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
      F        Bb                A          D 
Dorororororo rorororo Do doro do ro ro roro rorororo

D                                  G
Lord, today there is no salvation, the band packed up and gone 
A                                    D
Left me standing with my penny in my hand
                                             G
There’s a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his songs
A                                    D
But he can see what they can’t, understand.

Chorus:
         G                                               D
It’s the thirty-third of August and I’m finally touching down
G               Em              A        D
Eight days from Sunday finds me Saturday bound

Once I stumbled through the darkness, tumbled to my knees
A thousand voices screaming in my brain
Woke up in a squad car busted down for vagrancy
Outside my cell as sure as hell it looked like rain

But now I’ve put my dangerous feelings under lock and chain
Yes, I killed my violent nature with a smile
Though the demons danced and sung their songs within my fevered brain
Not all my God-like thoughts Lord were defiled

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