In the third line of the song...i thought he said.."dust of the desert"..but
i looked in an encyclopedia and found out that in western Texas there's a
town, rather a city, called "Odessa"...so after listening to it over and
over, i'm guessing that this is what he's saying....makes more sense
though....Also, in the 2nd verse, how do you spell.."derierre" as in
"butt"...did i spell it right?...
Sons of the Desert
SONG: "Change"
ALBUM: "Change" (MCA Nashville)
Writers: Craig Wiseman/Mark Selby (ASCAP/BMI)
Intro: G C D G C D
G C
Bill is standin' out by a west Texas highway
D
With his thumb in the mornin' air
G C
He spent eighteen summers in the dust of Odessa
D
Never gettin' nowhere
Em D
But he's got him a misspelled cardboard of Albuquerque
G C
Standin' in the break down lane
He ain't lookin' for a ride
D
So much as he's lookin' for a
--CHORUS
G C D
Change, a little somethin' different for cryin' out loud
G C D Em
Yeah, a change, even for the worst would be better somehow
C
Sometimes you just cross that line
Am D
Where everything is more of the same
Am Em C
When it's do or die, step aside, turn the tide
D G C D
Something's gotta change
G C
Now Betty's walkin' out of a tatoo parlor
D
She's got curlers in her hair
G C
She still can't believe she had a little red rose put
D
Right on her derierre
Em D
And she's still gotta pick up that red lace teddie
G C
And a bottle of pink champagne
Well her husband don't know it
D
But tonight well he's in for a
--CHORUS
G C D
Change, a little somethin' different for cryin' out loud
G C D Em
Yeah, a change, even for the worst would be better somehow
C
Sometimes you just cross that line
Am D
Where everything is more of the same
Am Em C
When it's do or die, step aside, turn the tide
D G C D
Something's gotta change
--BREAK --> G C D
G C
Now who of us hasn't been headin' home Friday
D
Sittin' at some traffic light
G C
Wonderin' what would happen if we hung a left
D
Instead of taking that faithful old right
Em D
It's the human condition part of us wishes that
G C
Life wouldn't get so tame
And we all know better than to
D
Thinkin' that it's ever gonna
--CHORUS
G C D
Change, a little somethin' different for cryin' out loud
G C D E
Yeah, a change, even for the worst would be better somehow
F Bb C
Lookin' for a change Yeah a change
(Ooooo) (Yeah a change) (Ooooo)
F Bb C
Lookin' for a change Yeah
(Ooooooo..yeah)
--TAG --> F Bb C <--repeat (fades out)
-*MCA Nashville*-
