Storm Windows

Tabbed by: Dave S.
Tuning: Standard
Artist: John Prine
Album: Souvenirs
Year: 2000

Intro

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Verse 1

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I can hear the wheels of automobiles
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So far away, just moving along through the drifting snow
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It's times like these when the temperatures freeze
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  I sit alone just looking at the world through a storm window
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   Down on the beach the sandman sleeps
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   Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps
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   And a country band that plays for keeps
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They play it so slow

Chorus

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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down

Interlude

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Verse 2

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Well, the spirits were high 'til the well went dry
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  For so long the raven at my window was only a crow
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  I bought the rights to the inside fights
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   Watched a man just beating his hand against a storm window
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   While miles away o'er hills and streams
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   A candle burns a witch's dreams
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   Silence is golden 'til it screams
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Right through your bones

Chorus

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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down

Interlude

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Bridge

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Storm windows, gee well I'm getting old
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Storm windows keep away the cold

Instrumental

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Chorus

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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down
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  Don't let your baby down, oh

Outro

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