While the mu sic played you (G)worked by can dle light

those (F)San Fran cis co nights.

You were the best in town.

at your Tech ni col or® mo tor home.

Just by chance you crossed the (G)dia mond with the pearl.

You (F)turned it on the world;

that’s when you turned the world a round.

and you’d go it a lone.

Did you feel

like (Am)Je sus?

Did you re (Am)al (F)ize

that you were a cham pi on in their (F)eyes?

On the hill the stuff was (G)laced with ker o sene,

but (F)yours was kitch en clean.

Ev ’ry one stopped to stare at your Tech ni col or® mo tor home.

Ev ’ry A frame had your (G)num ber on the wall.

You (F)must have had it all;

you’d go to L A on a dare

and you’d go it a lone.

Could you live

for (Am)ev er?

Could you see (Am)the (F)day?

Could you feel your whole pi on in their (F)eyes?

world fall a (F)part and (C)fade a (Dm)way?

Get a (Em7)long,

get a (Em7)long, Kid Char le magne.

Get a (Em7)long, Kid Char le (F7)magne.

Now the pa trons or have all (G)left you in the red.

Your (F)low rent friends are dead;

just life get can them all be out ver of y here.

strange.

All those Is there day gas in glow the car?

freaks who used to paint the Yes, face, there’s gas in the car.

they’ve (F)joined the hu man race.

I Some think things the (Bb7)peo will ple nev down er the change.

hall know who you are.

Son, you (G7)were

mis (Am)tak en,

you are ob (Am)so (F)lete;

look at all the white men on the (F)street.

Get a (Em7)long,

get a (Em7)long, Kid Char le magne.

Get a (Em7)long, Kid Char le (F7)magne.

Clean this mess up or else we’ll (G)all end up in jail.

Those (F)test tubes and the scale,

just life get can them all be out ver of y here.

strange.

All those Is there day gas in glow the car?

freaks who used to paint the Yes, face, there’s gas in the car.

they’ve (F)joined the hu man race.

I Some think things the (Bb7)peo will ple nev down er the change.

hall know who you are.

Care ful (G7)what

you (Am)car ry

’cause the man (Am)is (F)wise;

you are still an out law in their (F)street.

(F)eyes.