Parking Lot Song
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GCapotraste: Sem capotraste
From the album, Love What You Do (2005)
Rob Bullington (aka Mahlon Hackensaw)
[Intro]
G C
G C
G D G C G
[Verse]
G C
Well I was parking cars out on Sorority Row
G C
Where all the pretty women like the virgin snow, they’re like a
G
Mountain stream they got
D G C G
No faults at all
G C
G C
[Chorus]
G D
“Sister, sister, won’t you help me please? I got
C G
Tight pants, I got, weak knees, I had
C G D C
Less in mind than a picket fence, a house, a dog, and all the rest (rest)
C G D C
I get paid by the hour it’s true, and I don’t mind and neither should you because an
G D G
hour will do”
[Verse]
G C
Cold set in and I was bundled down
G C
Spending my time with a woman who’s bound to be
G
Leaving soon she got
D G C G
No faults at all
G C
You see the house ain’t mine and they’ll be bills to pay
G C
I tell myself she one hell of a lay-dee
[Chorus]
G D
Baby, baby won’t you tell me please when I
C G
Can go you see I’d like to leave, I had
C G D C
Less in mind than a picket fence, a house, a dog, and all the rest (rest)
C G D C
I get paid by the hour it’s true, and I don’t mind and neither should you because an
G D G
hour will do
[Bridge]
Em C G
One hour might make me feel like more than I am
Em C Am D
G C
G C
G D G C G
[Verse]
G C
Now I’d like to be like all the people I meet, they're the
G C
Traveling kind they got wings on their feet they got
G
Things to do with
D G C G
No faults at all
G C
(Well) I might sit me back down I might smoke me some, I might
G C
Tell myself that I’m having fun I said
[Chorus]
G D
“Brother, brother, won’t you take me please, with
C G
You man see I’d rather leave I had
C G D C
Less in mind than a picket fence, a house, a dog, and all the rest (rest)
C G D C
I get paid by the hour it’s true, and I don’t mind and neither should you because an
G D G C G C G C
hour will do
How to play Parking Lot Song
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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