The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Key: EEnglish
Verse
I Emwant to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat.
It comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with rugged precision
With a backbeat narrow and hard to master.
EmSome call it heavenly in its brilliance
Others mean and rueful of the Western dream.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
We have constructed pyramids in honour of our escaping.
This is the land where the Pharaoh died.
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Verse
EmThe negroes in the forest brightly feathered and they are saying:
"Forget the night! Live with us in forests of azure
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars.
Out here we is stoned immaculate."
Chorus
LisEten to this F#I'll tell Eyou aF#bout the heartaches; G
I'll Etell you about F#hearEtache and F#the loss of AGod. A# B
I'll Etell you about F#the hopeEless F#night
The meager C#food my Asoul forC#got A
F#Tell you about the maiden with the G#wrought iron Gsoul. F# E Em
Verse
EmI want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat
Soft driven slow and mad like some new language.
Chorus
LisEten to this F#I'll tell Eyou aF#bout Texas; G
I'll Etell you aF#bout TeExas F#RaAdiA#o. B
I'll Etell you aF#bout the hoEpeless night F#
The wandeC#rin' the AWesC#tern dream A
F#Tell you about the maiden with the wrought G#iron soul.
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