Between The Cracks

G

G
A sundown on the San Joaquin
                             D
An old woman walks home from work
D
Another day in the fields
                        G
Another day in the dirt

G
She lights a sacred candle
                           C
Next to a faded photograph
        D
And she says a prayer for a young man
                     G
Who fell between the cracks

G
She stares at the photo of the young man
                       D
Who caused her so much pain
D
In countless twelve round blood baths
                          G
When Kid Hey Zeus was his name

G
He was the pride of the valley
                                      C
Until the night he stayed down on his back
   D
He took the dive and he disappeared
                 G
Down between the cracks

           C                G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
       C                   D
On the wrong side of the tracks
   C                     Em
He rose again, but not before
   D                G
He fell between the cracks"

G
She re-reads all his letters
                           D
That he wrote her from L.A
D
He said, "Please don't worry about me
                          G
I'm coming home again someday"

G
Then she remembers the other stories
                               C
That were whispered behind her back
        D
About a shooting outside a grocery store
                      G
Somewhere between the cracks

           C                G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
       C                   D
On the wrong side of the tracks
   C                     Em
He rose again, but not before
   D                G
He fell between the cracks"

G  C  Em    D  G

G
Sunrise on the San Joaquin
                               D
An old woman walks off to work
D
Another day in the fields
                        G
Another day in the dirt

G
She stares at all the children
                                   C
Dropping rich men's fruit in their sacks
        D
And she says a prayer for all the souls
                    G
Trapped between the cracks

           C                G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
       C                   D
On the wrong side of the tracks
   C                     Em
He rose again, but not before
   D                G
He fell between the cracks
       C                     Em
And he rose again, but not before
   D                G
He fell between the cracks"

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