Song: Zip City
Band: Drive-By Truckers
Album: Southern Rock Opera
Tuning: Normal
Capo: None
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Notes
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#2 - Zip City, AL
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INTRO
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VERSE 1
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-- Your daddy was mad as hell.
-- He was mad at me and you when he
Tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me
Out of that ditch that I slid into.
-- Don't know what his problem is,
-- Why he keeps sending me away. Don't know
Why I put up with this shit when you
Don't put out and Zip City's so far a-
way.
-- --
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INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro)
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VERSE 2
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-- Your daddy is a deacon down at the
Salem Church of Christ, and he
Makes good money as long as Reynolds
Wrap keeps everything wrapped up tight.
-- Your mama's as good a wife and
Mama as she can be, and your
Sister keeps puttin' that sweet stuff on every-
body in town but me.
-- Your brother was the first-born, got ten
Fingers and ten toes, And it's a
Damn good thing cause he needs all twenty just to
Keep the closet door
Closed.
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INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro)
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VERSE 3
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-- Maybe it's the twenty-six mile
Drive from Zip City to Colbert
Heights that keeps my mind clean,
Gets me through the night.
-- Or maybe you're just a desti-
nation, a place for me to go that
Keeps me from having to deal with my
Seventeen-year-old mind all a-
lone. So keep your drawers on, girl,
It ain't worth the fight. By the
Time you drop them I'll be gone and you'll
Be right where they fall the rest of your
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below)
Life
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INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro, beat 1 is 'life' from above)
(Final "A" &-4-& is leading "you say you're" lyric below)
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VERSE 4
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You say you're
Tired of me taking you for
Granted, Waiting up 'till the last
Minute to call you up and see
What you want to do. But you're
Only fifteen, girl, you ain't
Got no secretary. And "For
Granted" is a mighty big word for a
Country girl like you. I think that's
Just your Daddy talking, Cause he
Knows that blood red carpet down at the
Salem Church of Christ ain't gonna
ever see no wedding between
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below)
me and you.
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INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro, beats 1/2 are 'me and you' from above)
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VERSE 5
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Zip City it's a good thing that they
Built the wall around you, Zip
Up to Tennessee then zip right
Down to Ala-bama. I got
-- 350 heads on a
-- 305 engine, I get
ten miles to the gallon, I ain't
got no good in-tentions.
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FINALE
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--crookedpath