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Weird Load
© Stephen Savitzky and Naomi Rivkis. CC-by-nc-sa.
This song was written for FAWM 2019 --
Naomi wrote the chorus, Steve wrote the verses, and it's kind of hard to
tell which of us wrote which parts of the music.
Steve: Knowing where we started and where we needed to end up, it was
mostly a matter of looking at a map and finding waypoints that were both
plausible and fit the meter.
\singer{Steve sings the verses except as noted}
D A
Drivin' home to Alabama I got turned around in Texas
D A
Saw a fellow at the corner with his thumb out for a ride
D D5 A
When I stopped for dir ections I could see he was a rabbit
D G A D
But he opened up the door and he hopped ins ide
D A
I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque
D G D A D
Went the wrong way at the fork in the road
D5 A
Been a long, long day and it's gotten kinda quirky
D G A D
But I'm back in 'Bama and I'm gett ing towed
D A
When I stopped to drop the rabbit off east of Amarillo
D A
I didn't think that anything could be more absurd
D5 A
But this coyote jumped aboard and he waved a stick of dynamite
D G A D
Pointed down the road and said \N: " Follow that bird!"
D A
I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque
D G D A D
Went the wrong way at the fork in the road
D5 A
Been a long, long day and it's gotten kinda quirky
D G A D
But I'm back in 'Bama and I'm gett ing towed
D A
Well, the dynamite went up and blew us all the way to Witchita
D A
Coyote hit the highway saying \N: " Thanks for the ride,"
D A
On the seat he left a packet of Acme tornado seeds
D G A D
That grew into a twister with the truck ins ide
D A
I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque
D G D A D
Went the wrong way at the fork in the road
D5 A
Been a long, long day and it's gotten kinda quirky
D G A D
But I'm back in 'Bama and I'm gett ing towed
D A
The tornado set me down a couple miles south of Mobile
D A
With a broom through the windshield, upside- down in a ditch
D D5 A
And when I rolled the window down to see where I had landed
D G A D
I was starin' at the slippers of an ang ry witch
D A
I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque
D G D A D
Went the wrong way at the fork in the road
D5 A
Been a long, long day and it's gotten kinda quirky
D G A D
But I'm back in 'Bama and I'm gett ing towed
D G A D
I'm back in 'Bama but I'm now ... a ... toad .