Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

The hurricane party's winding down

 And we're all waitin' for the end

And I don't want another drink

 I only want that last one again

 It gave me such a fine glow, smoky and slow

 Now I should probably be homeward bound

 But there's no one to talk to

 When the lines go down

I guess in the morning I'll go looking for my grey striped cat

My old house can take the weather

So I'm not too concerned about that

It was built to take the wind back in nineteen ten

When this was one damn fine town

But now there's no one to talk to

When the lines go down

Candles flickered on the back bar

The building was shakin' with the wind

I bought a whiskey for the gypsy

And she turned my leather back into skin

Just a fleeting sense

Of that rare suspense

I used to think made the world go round

But now there's no one to talk to

When the lines go down

Bridge

Open up your back screen door

Let me see your face once more

My hands are cold and my feet so sore

 That I can't go on this way

And the thoughts come too fast and too many to keep count

Best just let 'em on through

Now I'm breaking those old glass insulators

With my old twenty-two

Off the telegraph poles

As a half dollar rolls across the knuckles of a rodeo clown

There's just no one to talk to

When the lines go down

My one great love

My God I can feel her still

She ran off to California

Now she's livin' in those Hollywood Hills

With some bullfrog prince

I've not seen her since

Though she calls when he's out of town

And there's no one to talk to

When the lines go down

Bridge

Open up your back screen door

Let me in your space once more

I was lookin' for an easy score

But it just don't work that way

Some insurance man biker is yelling out for one more beer

But a part-time pirate just don't get much respect around here

We got our problems too man

We'll get to you in just a minute

Sit your drunk ass down

Yeah there's no one to talk to

When the lines go down

[Bridge without lyrics]

Now there's water up past the wheel wells of my Ford

And I don't guess it'll run

But I left a pack of Winstons on the dash

Could you get 'em for me son

The morning's first cigarette, that's as good as it gets all day

I should know by now

That there's no one to talk to

When the lines go down

Not hard at all! Thanks again to BlueLaguna for his version. If you find any

issues with mine just let me know.