Chris Richards, Why Arizona Tabs

'Why Arizona'
Written and recorded by Chris Richards on the cd 'Jam
the Breeze' (Ten High Ranch Recordings)

Chords could be substituted as follows

written as           D  Bm  G  D  A
alternatively play   A  F#m D  A  E 


Capo on 1st fret and play these chords.

Verse one
D                                  
A hundred miles between us 
         Bm
When the blue took back the sky.
G              D
Cities seeping out 
                A 
And now there's nowhere left to hide
D
Swallows cross the highway
            Bm      
They're not going home this time
G              D
Flying like canaries
         A
From the bottom of a mine.

Chorus 1.
G            A                 D                G 
Headed for a stretch where the pavement doesn't bend
                                     A 
Days'll look like they don't care to end.

Verse 2.
Out along the mountains
If you look with one eye closed
You can see the spirits
Spin the dances of the ghosts
Waiting for the rains to come
And rinse the poisoned land
I have heard the thunder
And that's all that I could stand

Chorus 2.
G            A                 D                G
Headed for s stretch where the pavement doesn't bend
                                     A
Days'll look like they don't care to end
G              A             D  Bm 
Out there on a lonely desert corner
G                              A
Clues are swirling through the air
G                 A  D  Bm 
When I get to Why Arizona
G               A                D  
Maybe I'll know where to go from there

Instrumental break

Verse three
Radio is spinning
And it rolls and rolls and rolls
Searching for a signal
Coming in from heaven knows
Shadows crawling closer
With a dozen miles to go
And it's left to Tuscon
Or it's straight to Mexico

Repeat chorus two

When I get to Why Arizona
Maybe I'll know where to go from there
maybe I'll know where to go from there