L.A.Freeway - chords, tab and comments
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I first heard this song performed by Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; 1942–2020), who in 1970 was the first one of many artists to record it, and I still cling to his version and arrangement. He also made "Desperados Waiting for a Train" famous. Guy Charles Clark (1941–2016) included both of them with his first album "Old No. 1" two years later. He has released several albums on various labels, but is mainly estimated as a considerable songwriter ... and, in fact, a luthier.
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go pack up all your dishes make note of all good wishes
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say goodbye to the landlord for me sons of bitches they always bore me
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throw out those L.A. papers and that moldy box of vanilla wafers
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adios to all this concrete gonna get me some dirt road back street
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if I could just get off of that L.A. freeway without being killed or caught
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down the road in a cloud of smoke for some land some land that I ain't bought
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if I could just get off of that L.A. freeway without being killed or caught