Tom: G
G
We had a little quarrel, she and I
C
She told me just to curl up and die
D
I crept out to drown my sorrows
At a joint called no tomorrows
C D
Where the old man came and looked me in the eye
G
Old Blevins
[Verse 2]
G G C G
I could see he had some wisdom to impart
C
Some story that was etched and burned and stamped
Upon his heart
D
Then his eyes began to glisten
'Cause he could see that I would listen
C D
We sat there at that bar 'til nearly three
G
And this is what Old Blevins said to me
[Chorus]
C G
He said "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
C A D
In Tijuana blah blah blah back in 1963
C G
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
D
You should have been there blah blah blah"
C G
Is what Old Blevins said to me
[Verse 3]
G
I sat there and I listened to his words
C
As they flapped around my head like little birds
D
Had he gone plumb 'round the bend
Or could I just not comprehend
C D
His lips were writing lines I could not read
G
When suddenly, it all came clear to me
[Chorus]
C G
As he said "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
C A D
Them crazy hippies blah blah blah blah no effect on me
C G
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
D
The great depression blah blah blah"
C G
And he would not leave me be
[Solo]
[Bridge]
A
Old Blevins was still talking when I seized my chance to flee
C D
Back home she's never known I'm not the fool I used to be
C G
But I know that a man and woman's lives were somehow changed
C A D
By a loathesome toothless geezer, incoherent and deranged
C G
And my memories of that evening fuel an inner-mounting fear
C A D
That I might become old Blevins anywhere that they sell beer
[Chorus]
C G
And I'll say "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
C A
I don't remember blah blah blah blah blah blah
D
Mistakes were made
C G
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
D
How 'bout them Cowboys? Blah blah blah"
C G
Like Old Blevins used to say
D G
Old Blevins
