Lilly and Joe

 

Written by John Stewart

 

‘Lilly and Joe’ is from the “Teresa and the Lost Songs” cassette, Crow, 1992, CD re-release with three great extra songs (but, sadly, without ‘Songs of All the Angels’ and ‘Wings of St. Michael’) in 1998 by Homecoming Records. 

This is one of those hypnotic Stew songs.  You might realize, when you will have learned it, that the guitar keeps playing the song, maybe even when you will have put it aside.  Listen closely to the verses, for they are beautiful.

 

 

Capo 2nd fret, drop D tuning

 

[Em7/D - play (em7) and include

low E-string string tuned down to D]

 

(D) (Em7/D) (D)(Em7/D) (D) (Em7/D) (D)(Em7/D)

 

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(E7/B) Lilly and (A7 short)Joe.

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(A7) Lilly and (D)Joe. (D/A)(Em7/B) (D) (G5)

 

(G) Lilly would (F#m)paint on the (Em)walls (A7short)of her (D)room,

(Bm) Pictures of the (F#m)sun, (Em)using (A)only (D)blue.

(G) She said it was be(F#m)cause the (Em)sun must (A7 short)be so (D)lonely

(Bm) With no one there to (F#m)share

Such a (Em7)never (E7/B)ending (A)view.(A7short)

 

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(E7/B) Lilly and (A7 short)Joe.

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(A7) Lilly and (D)Joe. (Em7/D) (D) (Em7/D) (D) (Em7/D) (D) (G5)

 

(G)Hitchhike any (F#m)road, (Em) (A7short)who do you (D)find?

(Bm) Orphans on the (F#m)run, (Em) they (A7short)were her (D)kind.

(G) Poets and (F#m)hobos, (Em)(A7short)Hershey's and (D)wine,

(Bm)Lilly, she was (F#m)loved and (Em7)for(E/B)gotten (E7/B)by (A)time.

 

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

We would (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(E7/B) Lilly and (A7 short)Joe.

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(A7) Lilly and (D)Joe.

 

Oh, I believe she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(E7/B) Lilly and (A7 short)Joe.

Oh, I be(D)lieve she be(Em7/D)lieved

That we'd (D)all live for(Em7/D)ever,

(D) Both of us to(Em7/D)gether,

(A7) Lilly and (D)Joe. (Em7/D) (D) (Em7/D) (D)

 

© John Stewart, All Rights Reserved

 

Charlie Woodward, janhauenstein@gmx.de & Art Faller

 

May 2004