🎹 Chordroom

Your Song Chords & Lyrics Database

Hellbent For Leather - Ray Wylie Hubbard Chords

Chords: D, G, C

More chords by Ray Wylie Hubbard

Genre: blues, rock, country


[Intro]
D
D

[Verse]
D
The fly-by-night carnival is closin' down
D
It's time to get off this merry-go-round
G
The kids and rubes have left the fairgrounds
D
The rock and roll gypsies gettin' out of town
D
D
Northeastern Oklahoma is callin' my name
D
Gettin' off the grid and the old shell game
G
Gonna transcend like Henry David Thoreau
D
Listen to the Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
D

[Chorus]
C D
So long, City of Angels
C D
Goodbye Sunset and Vine
C D
I'm leavin' for Oklahoma
C D
Adios, Hollywood sign
D

[Verse]
D
The Warner's record deal fell apart in LA
D
The Technicolor life turned battleship grey
G
It's like I's Daniel in the lion's den
D
'Cept no spirit appeared to save my skin
D
D
So I'm leavin' here with a girl who shimmies
D
With her black eyeliner and her handful of gimme
G
Take a twin reverb with two blown speakers
D
Wear my John Varvatos with Converse sneakers
D

[Chorus]
C D
So long, City of Angels

More Ray Wylie Hubbard Songs

ChordRoom - Free Guitar & Piano Chords