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Singin' the Dinosaur Blues
by Steven Fromholz

First Verse (form A)

 D            		A
Me and my friends are getting long in the tooth
	  G                      D
After three or four decades of seeking the truth
  D                     G
Trying to recover from mispent youth
      D        A             D
And gradually giving in to knowledge


Second Verse (form A)

I know a picker who moved to Nepal
And another buddy's got a little shop in a mall
Some of my brothers ain't breathing at all
And others have given up privilege

"Refrain"  (form B)

    A             
But I'm still beating on my old guitar
 D
Singing my songs in a smokey old bar
 A        
Hitching my wagon to a shooting star
     D
And hoping that star don't fall
A           
I'll keep picking as long as I can
       D                        G
But I don't want to die just a honky-tonk man
D                   A                     D
I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues


Third Verse (form A)
I was out last night, just me and a partner
Ain't nothing but a fool would drink that hard
You wind up sleeping in your buddy's front yard
And you wonder what to tell the little woman

Fourth Verse (form A)
Me and the band's up all night long
We was passing the pipe and banging the gong
Trying to remember one of Van Zandt's songs
Something about Mudd and Gold a-gamblin'

"Refrain"  (form B)
But I'm still walking down the lost highway
Doing what it takes to make my way
Knowing that I got a piper to pay
And hoping that I like the song

Maybe it'll be a ditty I know
I got people to see and places to go
Just an old buffalo singing the dinosaur blues

Fifth Verse (form A)
I've been a lucky man all of my life
I got two great kids and a wonderful wife
Got a rosewood guitar and a very sharp knife
And I got a handy little knack for rhymin'

Sixth Verse (form A)
I been blessed with a voice that can sing
And a faith in the future and what it may bring
And change is the very most natural of things
And life is mostly attitude and timing

"Refrain"  (form B)
One of these days, well, I'll disappear
You'll look around and I won't be here
Don't worry, buddy, there's nothing to fear
I'm just going where the rivers flow

You can find me in a rubbery boat
Down in Mexico you can send me a note
Care of a old buffalo singing the dinosaur

Ending (form C)
D                    G
I've played Buffalo, I recall Dinah Shore
                    A 	D                    A D
I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues


Might play it with a capo at 2nd fret.

Then:
D=C
G=F
A=G

Tabbed by Michael Shaw <mshaw@io.com>