Off The Main Drag Cifras

Off The Main Drag - Leif Vollebekk
 
 
Capo 4, standard tuning
 
Intro: C F    x 3
       C G F
       C G C... keep strumming into verse
 
         F     C                  F       C
Old gas station hasn’t changed in decades
 
F        C         G            F
Cashier checks the time around her
 
C                     G      C
put my things on the counter
 
             F     C                         F    C
Pull out my wallet like some pull down the shades
 
    F        C               G     F
My only brother lent me his only car
 
                 C           G     C
who knew I would drive it so far
 
 
               F  C            F        C
Sometimes you move out of some obligations
 
        F              C          G                   F
It was gorgeous on the outside, inside it was just a machine
 
                   C          G        C
it was the fastest thing I’ve ever seen
 
                  F  C                  F    C
I first met Victoria at Victoria station
 
        F     C             G          F
We’d always talked about going for a beer
 
                 C            G                C
She said, “It’s strange now that you’re here.”
 
 
                    F    C           F        C
We went back to her place, 57th we’d cross it
 
          F      C                  G        F
She’s as poor as me but she looks twice as good
 
                   C         G                 C
I told her that because it’s something I would
 
                   F  C                F      C
She shrugged a little and she turned off the faucet
 
      F    C                G     F
And later on as we were crawling into bed
 
              C                  G             C
I was thinking on something my father had said
 
 
                         F  C            F       C
He said, “You’re better off, off of the main drag.”
 
               F    C        G           F
with my well-worn body wrenched like a rag
 
          C             G             C
There I was, straight off the main drag
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