Song: Zip City
Band: Drive-By Truckers
Album: Southern Rock Opera
Tuning: Normal
Capo: None
-----
Notes
-----
#1 - The song is in 4:4, transcribed 1 line per measure
#2 - Zip City, AL
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.95675,-87.66901&spn=0.022405,0.025663&t=h&z=15
-----
INTRO
-----
Em
G
D
A Asus4 A
Em
G
D
A Asus4 A
-------
VERSE 1
-------
D
-- Your daddy was mad as hell.
Bm
-- He was mad at me and you when he
G
Tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me
Em G
Out of that ditch that I slid into.
D
-- Don't know what his problem is,
Bm
-- Why he keeps sending me away. Don't know
G
Why I put up with this shit when you
Em G
Don't put out and Zip City's so far a-
D Dsus2
way.
D Dsus4
-- --
---------
INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro)
---------
-------
VERSE 2
-------
D
-- Your daddy is a deacon down at the
Bm
Salem Church of Christ, and he
G
Makes good money as long as Reynolds
Em G
Wrap keeps everything wrapped up tight.
D
-- Your mama's as good a wife and
Bm
Mama as she can be, and your
G
Sister keeps puttin' that sweet stuff on every-
Em G
body in town but me.
A
-- Your brother was the first-born, got ten
Bm
Fingers and ten toes, And it's a
G
Damn good thing cause he needs all twenty just to
Em
Keep the closet door
G
Closed.
---------
INTERLUDE
D Dsus2
G D
(Repeat Intro)
---------
-------
VERSE 3
-------
Em
-- Maybe it's the twenty-six mile
G
Drive from Zip City to Colbert
D
Heights that keeps my mind clean,
A
Gets me through the night.
Em
-- Or maybe you're just a desti-
G
nation, a place for me to go that
D
Keeps me from having to deal with my
A
Seventeen-year-old mind all a-
Em
lone. So keep your drawers on, girl,
G
It ain't worth the fight. By the
D
Time you drop them I'll be gone and you'll
A
Be right where they fall the rest of your
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below)
Life
---------
INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro, beat 1 is 'life' from above)
(Final "A" &-4-& is leading "you say you're" lyric below)
---------
-------
VERSE 4
-------
A
You say you're
Em
Tired of me taking you for
G
Granted, Waiting up 'till the last
D
Minute to call you up and see
A
What you want to do. But you're
Em
Only fifteen, girl, you ain't
G
Got no secretary. And "For
D
Granted" is a mighty big word for a
A
Country girl like you. I think that's
Em
Just your Daddy talking, Cause he
G
Knows that blood red carpet down at the
D
Salem Church of Christ ain't gonna
A
ever see no wedding between
Em *** (see INTERLUDE below)
me and you.
---------
INTERLUDE
(Repeat Intro, beats 1/2 are 'me and you' from above)
---------
-------
VERSE 5
-------
D
Zip City it's a good thing that they
Bm
Built the wall around you, Zip
G
Up to Tennessee then zip right
Em G
Down to Ala-bama. I got
D
-- 350 heads on a
Bm
-- 305 engine, I get
G
ten miles to the gallon, I ain't
Em G
got no good in-tentions.
------
FINALE
------
D
--crookedpath
