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                        SAD CINDERELLA
                       Townes Van Zandt
              Copyright © 1968 Silver Dollar Music
                Performing rights w/ASCAP
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#This file is an interpretation of Townes' work, and does not  #
#necessarily represent the actual way he recorded or performed # 
#the song, and is not intended to be used for any purpose other#
#than for private study, scholarship, or research              #
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 Submitted by Alan K. 
- This is a Great, Easy Song
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	      C           G        F           C
 When the bandits have stolen your jewelry and gone
        F                          C
 and your crippled young gypsy, he's grown tall and strong
        F       G        F          C
 and your dead misconceptions have proven you wrong
         C                   F       G
 well then, princess, where you plannin' to turn to?
 when your magazine memory has spun you around
 and you realize your lovers were just painted clowns
 and outside your window you start hearing sounds
 where they're building a cross for to burn you

     F                G          C           F
 when all your bright scarlet turn slowly to blue
         G             F      C
 will you stop and decide that it's over?


 When your teardrops go sour and no longer fall
 the splash cross the virgin that lives down your hall
 and spends all her nights with an ear to your wall
 well then, what will you have you can offer?
 When the firedancers finish and leave you alone
 with nothing but embers and sacks full of stone
 that hang round your neck, slicing through to the bone
 will there still be place for your laughter?   

 As your shattered illusions come a-tumblin' home
 and all of the butchers you've nourished have grown
 and they are suddenly able to leave you alone
 and they run like slaves that are set free
 when your questions are answered and your pleading is done
 and your mind starts to screaming that you ain't the one
 that once dwelled within you, will you turn, will you run
 Then princess, will you come home and get me? 

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