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"Amber Lee" - by John Gorka 1998 (from the CD "After Yesterday")

Capo on 3rd fret

            x20000
Intro:  C   Gmaj6   Dm   Am  G


                  C
She never let her roots go brown
 
                          Gmaj6
She kept moving them from town to town

                            Dm
Like she was running from a restless sound 

                   Am         G
That would use her name in vain


Back then she was the one to know
We didn't like it but we loved her so
It broke our hearts to let her go
As if we had a choice 

As if we had a choice
Oh as if we had a choice
It broke our hearts to let her go

         Am       G   F
As if we had a choice 


With far to many brows to sooth
There was just so much to prove
On occasion with the ruthless move
And the smoking overpass

Take it from one who tries
There's nothing friendly in the open skies
Nothing up there ever satisfies
The air is thin and cold

The air is thin and cold
Yeah, the air is thin and cold
Nothing up there ever satisfies
The air is thin and cold


C
Amber Lee 

                        Gmaj6
Back then we called her Amber Lee

              Dm
We all landed in her way

              Am      G   F
We called her Amber Lee


Bridge:
Em                            
Both a first and second wife

F
Unhappy almost all her life

Bb     
The pain is sharper than a dull-edged knife

        Am                 G
And the rust will lock you in


The highway is her habitat
She wouldn't cut it as a diplomat
She's not sorry that it came to that
But what's a girl to do?

They call her names 'cause they think they can
You wouldn't hear them if she was a man
We're all flashes in a great big pan
They're turning up the heat

They're turning up the heat
Yeah, they're turning up the heat
We're all flashes in a great big pan
They're turning up the heat

Amber Lee
Back then we called her Amber Lee
We all landed in her way
We called her Amber Lee...