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
