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Picture On My Wall

10/30/2016

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I'm trying to transcribe these songs I've written in these past couple of years.  This ones from 2014.  I wanted to post one titled, "My Girlfriend Is a Hatesong," but I'm not sure I want to post stuff about someone that I've had dealings with as recently as last week.  Harlan Howard was asked once what country music was, and he replied, "Three chords and the truth."  Of just about all my songs, "Picture On My Wall" fits this definition the best, in my humble opinion:

Picture On My Wall
By
Richy Vegas

D,G,A,Bm
Bridge:Em,G,F#m,C
Strumming pattern: B∇B∆∇

Verse:
D
I used to count the days
G                                     D
Of quittin’ cigarettes and beer
D
You’d stand above those days
G                           D
Like a sentinel so dear.

D
Now I use the calendar
G                                   D 
Just to mark important dates
D
Like when my dogs get their meds
G                                         D
Yeah, some real important dates.

Chorus:
A                                      Bm
Well your stand-ins in my world
G                                 D
Don’t serve you well at all
A                          Bm
And I bet I’m better off
G                                             D
When you’re a picture on my wall.

Verse:
Cindy did some runway
And she had an attitude
She used to serve me coffee
And to me she was quite rude.

I’d had enough of her
And with her I didn’t start
She had a thousand dollar body
Wrapped around a ten-cent heart.

Chorus:
Well your stand-ins in my world
Don’t serve you well at all
And I bet I’m better off 
When you’re a picture on my wall.

Bridge:
F#m                                   Em
Oh my world would be a heartache
G                        F#m
If I let them make the call
F#m                                  Em
I look at you, could you be better
Em                                 C
Oh you up there on my wall…

Verse;
Hannah was a piece of work
As mean as mean could be
I made it on her shit-list
And she had her sights on me.

She wanted us to go there
I said we’re not going there
Check yourself don’t wreck yourself
And I walked without a care


Chorus:
Well your stand-ins in my world
Don’t serve you well at all
And I bet I’m better off
When you’re a picture on my wall.


Richy Vegas 7/20/2014

Chuck Pinnell helped with the arrangement 





















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