107 BLUES A Bad feelings all around me E Bad feelings all around me D G F A Gonna take a fifth of Old Weller just to set me free (Feelin's gettin' low now just about over my head)2X Thank you Lord, I can drown in bourbon instead (107 bourbon gonna clear my mind)2X Gonna ease my head just like smokin' the kind -4-/-7-/-10-/-13- -3-/-6-/-9--/-12- -4-/-7-/-10-/-13- -3-/-6-/-9--/-12- ----------------- ----------------- C D G Hear me pound it now You can hear my Old Weller howl And if I drink too much brown You're gonna see me go down (Thing about whiskey blues, papa don't feel no pain)2X It's the only kind of blues i'd sure like to feel again (Gimme 107 bourbon baby til I die)2X If it comes sooner than later I'll sure know why AIMLESS BUT SHAMELESS G Well I'm a little slice of confusion, and my mind floats aimlessly. Unemployed, out of touch with Freud as I tailspin eternally. A# As I plummet to the earth I got a dram on my hip. G It will take a sea of whiskey to save my sinking ship. F D/F# G Sinking or Rising, soon you'll see, you won't find no lies inside of me You think you're rising, but soon you'll see you can't keep blaming your lies on me Now Satan's rising inside me and soon you'll have some worms to feed Some folks call me hopeless cause I got no sweltering pride Pathos drowning Hubris, will be my alibi. Bands in town can run around waiting to find or to be found while the wind it whistles through their ears, makin' an eerie sound. Chorus Blind drunk in the dark I stagger, I don't need my eyes to see My heart is true but my eyes deceive divert my soul from whiskey. I don't need no cocaine, wheelchair or a crutch. I'll just take your bottle, please, and thank you very much. BEER WASTING WOMAN C D7 F G C We could have lasted another year if you'd a finished your beer. Shouldn't a smashed it on my head. I would have drank the beer instead. Am E7 Am D Broken glass in my face, but wasting beer's a disgrace Am G C E I should've killed you for committing such a crime I could have taken the pain some more, now I'd rather spill you on the floor. I took all I could possibly use, and got much more pleasure out of booze chorus Now that you're out of the bar, I know I don't have to look far. Bottles and friends are very near and plenty of girls that finish their beer DRUNK AND FAMOUS - words by erich G C E G C E My once tender, fleecy shades of green have turned a temporary blue. Soon, I fear, to turn the hazy shades for now the blues give way to soon Bm F D Bm F A For now, I tremble in rage. My fingers are cigarette stained. Em G D Growing must be fought, the message it screams. Dm Dm/F A7 I've stepped out of the green too soon. Em G D In throwing myself upon the flame, Dm Dm/F A7 D D9/C I insure not only my doom but my fame. Once you're ahead, where can you go? Fame has won me countless friends, yet I sit here, all alone. My eyes watch the leaves out in the street. Autumn has descended like a dream, the greens of summer are now obscene Now my life is burning away, too drunk to fear dying, the awful void looks okay. For the rest who follow, the void will not look the same. In the all engulfing black there will be a single, receding flame. The light is fading from the sky, every night is longer than the last. Soon it will be my time to die but first let us have another glass. When winter comes and fall fades, as it always does and we will always rage. Like leaves that fall from a dying drying tree, Ashes from a cigarette on your floor. We'll softly drop down into a jug of whiskey, for my love and summer are no more GATOR JOE Em G -0--0-0--0--0---0--0-----3- -0--0-0--0--0---0--0-----0- --------------------------- -2------1--0--------------- -2-------------2-1-0------- -0---------------------3--- Em G I'm a shroomsadoplasticist and that's alright I shroom all day and I drink all night I got my baby sealed up tight Crawlin' 'round bars just lookin' for a fight A7 C B7 Em Gator Joe, don't you come runnin' 'round here no more ------ ------ ------ ----0- -0h2-- ------ -Sweet Lordy Whiskey done touched my head Tried to get a lady got a gator instead You should've seen that lizard rockin' my bed I would've got another but I didn't have the bread -Early mornin' heat come a'knockin'' on my door gator chawed him up and spat him on the floor Agents don't come 'round here no more Don't you go callin' this shit folklore CHEESESTEAK C A7 We were so good together, a better team you couldn't find C A7 but the way she bothered me I had to drink myself blind. F# D Mathematic advertize taproom laughter scrutinize C E three wise men fertilize and jesus neil stigmatize That girl she drove me crazy, up and over the wall Good God, good grief, good riddance and thank you alcohol untrained monkeys fleabit thighs babysitter's anguished sighs subway urchin's bloodshot eyes sunday shopping nobel prize Now that it's all over, I'm free to do as I please Pounding whiskey women darvon novril helps me keep my mind at ease This ending's caught me by surprise, and now it's time to close my eyes before I'm forced to realize these are only alibis KILLING IS THE ONLY HONESTY B7 C7 B7 E7 B7 C7 B7 E7 Killing is the only honesty, better than false smiles of razor edged teeth. G# B I'd rather have a man put a knife to my neck and slice, E G E G C#7 F#7 than to buy me a drink, shake my hand as he takes off with my wife. My life is tortured by forgotten memories, Drunks Against Vodka In Domine, that spells DAVID for me every day. Mediocre can't get enough while the finest roll on by satisfied Pathetic or prophetic I'm blue as I watch the ego world of smarm collapse around you. Killing is the only life for me braincells are targets and I'm out on a spree. They're all ready to die. My lungs are roastin' ready and born to ripe The bottle's already started as I load up my pipe This song flows like the blood from R. Bud Dwyer's nose Optical nerve dies as the mind it grows I walk through the streets in obscurity. I don't bother nobody and they don't bother me. I keep to myself and I live alone. Life ain't worth living if you're living for somebody else and you ain't livin' your own. MY LIQUIDITY C# dim: -0- -2- -0- -3- -4- --- D C A F G D C A F G I'm just enjoying the atmosphere while my head fights against becoming clear. Grownups raised through childhood fear. Their worries poured through great big steins of beer. Questions as vague as daughters of Lear. Signs of hope very far from near. D F C C#dim To them life is deprecating and devoid, the torture it turns as a man turns into boy We all are drowning in our seas of obey we lose more opportunity every single day Glasses are emptied and our dreams realized Some draw their swords way too quick and then surmise That the unfelt passions behind our eyes Make the lewd unlucky ones deify All our visions are poor and bleak just to scan one horizon takes too many weeks. Our strength is gone and the weakness it reigns as obligatory minds drive us into the sane. Unconscious minds cling to mundanity. True realization is LSD outro: D C A F G Blood is everywhere, (it's in de streets) kind blood is everywhere (it's in your eyes) etc. NOTHING F# I met a girl, she was half my height, she said C7 "You're gonna be mine tonight, F# but it's only fair if I tell you right now, C7 you make no difference anyhow. F# E A7 D7 You mean nothing to me, I mean I see you like a dog sees a flea." So she took me right home and she sat me down and said, "I'm gonna turn your world around." I said "Lady what're you tryin' to prove, you can't tame my stone groove. Don't call me nothing again. You don't got what it takes to win." Just then I noticed my wallet was missin' and I screamed, "Lady you better listen..I got five knuckles, gonna lay you still, then we'll see who's nothing, yes we will." And then a man entered and he was so big he made Iron Mike Tyson look like a twig. So I swallowed my pride and away I run. Away I run to get my shotgun. And she'll be nothing no more, and I'll be headed for the liquor store. Nothing no more, and I'll be headed for the liquor store SHOTFACED Em As I sit here, I wonder why, I'm still on the ground and I cannot fly Am Watch me fumble, like so many times before. G C Em Watch me stumble and wind up on the floor. D A Em I'm just too shotfaced everyday it gets worse. B7 Em Tried to find my love, but the whiskey found me first. People around here feign sympathy the same. Feets don't fail me now, I got to get away. Everybody is so incomplete. Change your position, you will lose your seat. Just too shotfaced, if you don't mind, I'm satisfied. I might have tortured you, but at least I never lied Em All numbers add up to the same, Am Emotions never play that game Em B7 I don't know what should matter most but I say Em sobers don't play straight games anyway Pathetic, esoteric and lonely it's true but still I slide uphill and look sadly down at you. Please don't ask me why. If I knew when I answered, I'd have looked you dead in the eye. We're all alone, all alone in our minds. I tried to find my love, but the whiskey met the kind. SEAGULLS DESCEND F#sus: -0- -0- -2- -0- -4- --- E *F#sus G C Standing in the hallway of some stranger's house. E F#sus G D The party had started raging when the liquor ran out. E F#sus G C I looked at my buddy and I patted on my chest, E F#sus G D cause stashed underneath my coat was some Hiram Walker's Best. E F#sus G C Thirsty eyes glared around, the mood soon turned sour. E F#sus G D Music couldn't hold the pace, and the liquor store's past closing hour. Am F G Am F G As I busted out my flask, radars honed in attention stirred fast. F# Bm Zombies circled 'round my buzz was their prey. A B7 The seagulls had descended and I could not get away. For a fleeting moment sweet heaven was mine, all mine, the liquid ceased all thoughts as whiskey caressed my mind. My pal and I danced around, funky rhythms drove us on. Indiscretion on my part and our cover was blown. Fugitive pied pipers of parasitic boozehounds. "Please just one shot, Max, tomorrow I'm getting an ounce" Chorus Making temporary friends we were a Godsend to those folks now friendlier, their stomachs warm, the girls lit up their smokes. Buzzes around us began to drain the lives of ours. My flask went bone dry, they all left within half an hour. Soon we headed home, my friend's spirits were glum, until I reminded him of the gallon at home that the flask had come from. So when you all go out to rage, think for yourself and act your age. Drinking for the moment will leave you dry at the end of the night, and the seagulls will descend and you cannot put up a fight. SHOTLIFTER A G When I get home from work and feel so bad C E7 sick from the wretched day I had A G I sit right down in my favorite chair C E7 and drown all my fears and my dry daymares A G with a glass of ice, bottle of brown C E shotlifting til the sun goes down F#m Bm G E my stomach feels so warm, white collar angst shotlifting will disarm F#m Bm G E TV is a blur, conscience floats away I can't remember If I got home from work and I had nought to drink The news, rent and my girlfriend will give me too much to think so I sit right down and drink my fill and if the pain lingers on I'll have a pill Chorus Next day rolls around, the fun fades away drains from my raging in the cold work day beckoning friend from beyond the grave I plead someday my sanity that you will save Chorus WHAT A WONDERFUL BUZZ F Am Bb Am I see buds of green with hairs of red Gm7 F A7 Dm Db they feel so good inside my head and I think to myself C9 C7 F "What a wonderful buzz" I drink lakes of beer oceans of booze, my liver and kidneys are mine to lose as I think to myself "What a wonderful buzz" C7 F The color of whiskey so pretty on the shelf C7 F just waiting to flow deep inside of myself. Dm C/E Dm/F C/G I see funnels go down through thousands of throats. Dm/F F#dim They laugh, fall down and puke on themselves Gm7 F#dim C7 and that's all she wrote I hear braincells scream, "Please Max, no more!" I laugh as I drown them, and pass out on the floor and I think to myself, "What a wonderful buzz" Am7-5 D7 Gm7 C7-9 F Yes I think to myself, what a wonderful buzz Bb6 F Special chords: C9 F+ C/E Dm/F F#dim Am7-5 C7-9 Bb6 --3----1-----0-----1--------2-------3--------0------3-- --3----2-----1-----3--------1-------1--------2------3-- --3----2-----0-----2--------2-------2--------3------3-- --2----3-----2-----3--------1-------1--------x------3-- --3------------------------------------------3------1-- -------------------------------------------------------