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Chords: A B F G E C F#
e----------0----0----1----3----0----0----2----|
B----------0----0----1----3----0----0----2----|
G----------6----8----2----4----1----9----3----|
D----------7----9----3----5----2--- 10---4----|
A----------7----9----3----5----2--- 10---4----|
E----------5----7----1----3----0----8----2----|
Intro LA SI LA SI
LA SI LA SI
LA SI LA SI
Don't you know I need a place to stay
LA SI LA SI
Only fifteen bucks a day
FA
I didn't want to end up here
SOL
But now I guess I need to stay
LA SI
LA SI
(second verse, same as the first!)
River red, runs like lead
And the smell of kerosene in my head
Stuck here in this shithole
Reading foreign magazines instead
Chorus
LA SI
LA LA
SI
"But senor, I only have ten dollars;
SI
Can't you spare me a room for the night?"
LA SOL MI
We argue about currency and then
DO
He says I can stay for the night
MI SOL DO LA
In this Panama City Motel
SOL FA# MI SOL DO
I am out on the freeway again
LA SI
LA SI
LA SI
LA SI
(third verse)
A woman approaches in Barcelona
Walking down the Diagonalia
Spaghetti concrete overpasses
I keep grasping for something familiar
Chorus
Repeat 2nd part of Chorus again
then follow the "A B" rhythm while singing ad lib
"Oh No... Don't you know I need a place to stay"
the song finishes on a sustained A
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