LulaCifra

 

Intro 

C  Am  G C G 

Verso 1:

C                                   Am 
Well, Lula was a girl from a humble town 
                      G                        C 
She had a mean, drunk daddy liked to push her ’round 
                                      Am 
And he sold what he called poor man’s cocaine 
               G                    C    G C 
But the police called it methamphetamine 

Verso 2:

C                                                Am 
One night she sunk her knife in the small of his back 
                   G              F          C 
Ain’t no one gonna find where she buried him at 
                                      Am 
She took a train up the river into Omaha 
                    G                              C 
Did some dirty damn things and bought a broke down car 



             Am                 G 
She’d say, I ain’t gettin’ younger 
             C    F 
I just wanna feel good 
              Am          G               F         C 
I ain’t gonna do what you want ’cause you tell me I should 
               Am        G   C 
I’m just gonna sit right down 
           F 
And have a smoke 
         Am       G 
Somebody buy me a beer 
         F       C 
Somebody tll me a joke 


Verso 3:

C                               F          Am 
Well, pople do funny things to numb their pain 
               C            F       C 
And Lula drank liquor to forget her name 
                               F   Am 
She used to sleep it off by an old oak tree 
                    G                              C 
In that Pontiac she bought with her money from the street 



             Am                 G 
She’d say, I ain’t gettin’ younger 
             C    F 
I just wanna feel good 
              Am          G               F         C 
I ain’t gonna do what you want ’cause you tell me I should 
               Am        G   C 
I’m just gonna sit right down 
           F 
And have a smoke 
         Am       G 
Somebody buy me a beer 
         F       C 
Somebody tll me a joke 



Interlude 

C    Am G  F    Am G F C 

Verso 4:

C                                      Am 
She was crying for her life that she never knew 
                                G       F                 C 
What could have been and how it was and what she ought to do 
                                                 Am 
She wiped a tear from her eye, then she shut her mouth 
                    G 
Then her feet broke the river and the lights went out 



N.C.                         Am 
And she said I ain’t gettin’ younger 
C                 F 
I just wanna feel good 
              Am          G               F         C 
I ain’t gonna do what you want ’cause you tell me I should 
               Am        G   C 
I’m just gonna sit right down 
           F 
And have a smoke 
         Am 
Somebody buy me a beer 
G                  C 
Somebody tll me a joke 
         Am     G 
Somebody buy me a beer 
         F               G C 
Somebody tell me a joke