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Rake by Townes Van Zandt - Guitar Chords

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            Rake
By: Townes Van Zandt



      Dm
Well, I used to wake
    F
and run with the moon
  G
I lived like a rake and a young man
  Dm
I covered my lovers
     F
with flowers and wounds
   G                          Dm
my laughter the devil would frighten.

    F              G
The sun, she would come
   C           Dm
and beat me back down
    C                       Dm
but every cruel day had its nightfall
    F           G
I'd welcome the stars
     C            Dm
with wine and guitars
 C                      Dm
    full of fire and forgetful


Dm
My body was sharp
F
the dark air clean
    G                 Dm
and outrage my joyful companion
    Dm
whisperin' women
    F
how sweet did they seem
G                     Dm
kneelin' for me to command them


F                 G
And time was like water
    F         Dm
but I was the sea
  C                        Dm
I wouldn't have noticed it passing
       F          G
except for the turnin'
   C          Dm
of night into day
    C                   Dm
and turnin' of day into cursin'


Dm
You look at me now
    F                   Dm
and don't think I don't know
     C                      Dm
what all of your eyes are a sayin'
        Dm
Does he want us to believe
F
these ravings and lies
G                                           Dm
they're just tricks that his brain's been a playin'?


F            G
A lover of women
C               Dm
he can't hardly stand
   C                           Dm
he trembles he's bent and he's broken
     F           G
I've fallen it's true
C              Dm
but I say unto you
C                                  Dm
hold your tongues until after I've spoken


Dm
I was takin' by pride
F
in the pleasures I'd known
  G                          Dm
I laughed and said I'd be forgiven
       Dm
but my laughter turned 'round
F                Dm
eyes blazin' and said
G                          Dm
my friend, we're holding a wedding


F           G
I buried my face
C                 Dm
but it spoke once again
 C                       Dm
night to the day we're a bindin'
    F            Dm
and now the dark air
        C          Dm
is like fire on my skin
C                         Dm
and even the moonlight is blinding 
        

We also have 35 songs by Townes Van Zandt

• At My Window
• Be Here To Love Me
• Buckskin Stallion Blues
• Colorado Girl
• Columbine
• Dont Take It Too Bad
• Dont You Take It Too Bad
• Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel
• Flyin Shoes
• For The Sake Of The Song
• If I Needed You
• Ill Be Here In The Morning
• Kathleen
• Like A Summer Thursday
• Loretta
• Lungs
• Mr Mudd And Mr Gold
• My Proud Mountains
• No Place To Fall
• None But The Rain
• Nothin
• Our Mother The Mountain
• Pancho And Lefty
• Quicksilver Daydreams Of Maria
• Rake
• Rexs Blues
• She Came And She Touched Me
• Snake Mountain Blues
• Snowin On Raton
• Tecumseh Valley
• To Live Is To Fly
• Tower Song
• Waitin Around To Die
• White Freight Liner Blues
• White Freightliner Blues

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