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Jessie Tab

by Joshua Kadison


INTRO: 1st time piano only, then:

             
             

VERSE:
                                               
From a phone booth in Vegas Jessie calls at five a.m. 
                                       
To tell me that she's tired     of all of them
                                                      
She says 'Baby I've been thinking about a trailer by the sea
                                    
We can go to Mexico: you, the cat, and me
                              
We drink tequila    and look for seashells
                    
Now doesn't that sound sweet?  
                
Jessie, you always do this
                                            
Every time I get back on my feet  

CHORUS:
                                               
Jessie, paint your pictures, about how it's gonna be
                                                   
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free
                                             
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea
                                          
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me  
                                     
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me

             
             

VERSE:
                                                   
She asks me how the cat's been, I say Moses, he's just fine
                                   
He used to think about you    all the time
                                          
We finally took your pictures down from the wall
                                        
Jessie how do you always seem to know just when to call?
                        
She says: get your stuff together
                        
Bring Mose' and drive real fast
                  
And listening to her promise
                                                     
I swear to God this time it's gonna last

CHORUS:
                                               
Jessie, paint your pictures, about how it's gonna be
                                                      
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free
                                             
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea
                                          
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me  

BRIDGE:
               
I love you in the sunshine
                            
Lay you down in the warm white sand
                 
And who knows maybe this time
                                                   
Things may turn out just the way you planned

CHORUS:
                                               
Jessie, paint your pictures, about how it's gonna be
                                                      
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free
                                             
But tell me all about our little trailer by the sea
                                          
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me  
                                     
Jessie you can always sell any dream to me

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