Grandpas Interview

	  		

Intro: (x3) 
Cadd9  / Am  
G7sus4 / Cadd2  
  
Cadd9                Am  
Grandpa, here's your coffee,  
Cadd9                     Am  
Said Edith, as she filled his cup.  
Cadd9              Am  
Nobody'll find you here,  
G7sus4                    Cadd2   
And Earl is glad you guys showed up. 

Cadd9              Am  
The way things are downtown,  
Cadd9                      Am  
You might have to stay for a while,  
Cadd9                                Am  
There was a helicopter hovering over your house  
G7sus4                         Cadd2   
When I talked to your neighbor Kyle.  

Cadd9                           Am 
Who the hell do they think they are,  
Cadd9                  Am 
Invading our home like that?  
Cadd9                         Am 
Grandma and I had to leave so fast,  
G7sus4                     Cadd2   
We couldn't even catch the cat.  

Cadd9                              Am 
The helicopter scared the shit out of him,  
Cadd9                    Am 
And it took off down the trail,  
Cadd9                  Am 
Down past the railroad track,  
G7sus4             Cadd2   
Towards the county jail.  
  
BRIDGE 1:  
Cadd9 / Am (x3)  
G7sus4 / Cadd2   
  

Cadd9                      Am 
Jed, you really screwed up now!  
Cadd9                        Am 
What did you have to do that for?  
Cadd9                        Am 
Everybody wants to hang your ass,  
G7sus4                 Cadd2   
And here's a note from Lenore.  

Cadd9                Am 
Sun touched the cold steel bars  
Cadd9                   Am 
As she pushed the paper in.  
Cadd9                   Am 
Jed took it up and read it  
G7sus4                 Cadd2   
And he couldn't hide a grin.  
  
Cadd9            Am 
Outside the jail window  
Cadd9              Am 
A crow flew across the sky,  
Cadd9                          Am 
Completely disappearing behind each bar,  
G7sus4                 Cadd2   
Then a helicopter flew by.  

Cadd9                    Am 
Say hi to Earl and Edith.  
Cadd9                    Am 
Tell 'em I'm doing fine.  
Cadd9                    Am 
Tell 'em you're ready to leave home now,  
G7sus4              Cadd2   
They should cut the line.  
  
Cadd9                    Am 
Can Grandma come and see me?  
Cadd9               Am 
I got a new song to sing  
Cadd9                           Am 
It's longer than all the others combined  
G7sus4                Cadd2   
And it doesn't mean a thing.  
  
BRIDGE 2: (x2)  
Cadd9  / Am  
G7sus4 / Cadd2   
  

Cadd9           Am 
The noise was unfamiliar,  
Cadd9            Am 
Walkie-talkies squelled,  
Cadd9           Am 
Generators were running,  
G7sus4             Cadd2   
Vans parked in the field.  
  
Cadd9           Am 
TV crews and cameras,  
Cadd9                            Am 
They wanted to interview Grandpa on the porch.  
Cadd9                             Am 
They came through the gate and up on the lawn  
G7sus4                Cadd2   
Knocking down Edith's Tiki Torch. 

Cadd9                Am  
And Grandpa saw them there,  
Cadd9                    Am 
Looking through the venetian blind.  
Cadd9                       Am 
Those people don't have any respect,  
G7sus4                   Cadd2   
So they won't get any of mine.  
  
Cadd9                    Am 
I ain't wanna talk about Jed.  
Cadd9                           Am 
I don't watch channel 2 or 6 or 9.  
Cadd9                          Am 
I don't have time to talk that fast,  
G7sus4          Cadd2   
And it ain't my crime.  

Cadd9                      Am  
It ain't an honor to be on TV  
Cadd9                 Am 
And it ain't a duty either.  
Cadd9                     Am 
The only good thing about TV  
G7sus4                     Cadd2   
Is shows like 'Leave it to Beaver'.  
  
Cadd9               Am 
Shows with love and affection,  
Cadd9             Am 
Like Mama used to say.  
Cadd9             Am 
A little Mayberry living  
G7sus4          Cadd2   
Could go a long way.  
  
Cadd9                            Am 
He took Earl's gun down from the closet,  
Cadd9                  Am 
Loaded up both barrels.  
Cadd9                           Am 
Went out on the porch and fired 'em off,  
G7sus4                      Cadd2   
And up walked a woman named Carol.  
  
Cadd9                  Am 
Susan Carol from Early Magazine,  
Cadd9                   Am 
I got some questions to ask.  
Cadd9                                Am 
Well you can stick 'em where the sun don't shine!  
G7sus4              Cadd2   
Grandpa said with a gasp.  
  
Cadd9                               Am 
Then he fell face first and let out a sigh,  
Cadd9             Am 
Edith came out in shock.  
Cadd9                                   Am 
Grandpa was whispering to her from down on the floor,  
G7sus4                          Cadd2   
he looked like he was trying to talk.  
  
Cadd9               Am 
That guy just keeps singin'!  
Cadd9                 Am 
Can somebody shut him up?  
Cadd9                     Am 
I don't know for the life of me  
G7sus4                      Cadd2   
Where he comes up with this stuff.  
  
BRIDGE 3: (x3)  
Cadd9 / Am  
G7sus4 / Cadd2   
  
Cadd9                   Am 
They laid his head on a newspaper  
Cadd9                               Am 
With a picture of Carmichael on the front page,  
Cadd9                         Am 
Posing with the little league baseball team,  
G7sus4                       Cadd2   
And a seedy shot of Jed with a motorcycle.  
  
Cadd9               Am 
Grandpa died like a hero,  
Cadd9                   Am 
Fighting for freedom of silence,  
Cadd9              Am 
Trying to stop the media,  
G7sus4           Cadd2   
Trying to be anonymous.  
  
BRIDGE 4: (x2)  
Cadd9  / Am 
G7sus4 / Cadd2   
  
SOLO  
  
Cadd9                 Am  
Share your loving and you live so long  
Cadd9                 Am  
Share your loving and you live so long  
Cadd9                 Am  
Share your loving and you live so long  
G7sus4                Cadd2  
Live so long