The Lucksmiths - Fiction
Closing track from their 2005 release Warmer Corners
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Written down here, gentle reader
                        G
It seems too good to be true
              Cmaj7
But there's a girl in Kansas City
        G
With my favourite tattoo
   Am          C      G
Oh why would I lie to you?

Cmaj7    G  x2

         Cmaj7
This was in another century
          G
Somewhere near the summer's end
    Cmaj7
The fahrenheit was frightening
      G
I was awake the whole weekend
Cmaj7
Invited to a barbecue
        G
I found refuge in the kitchen
           Cmaj7
Discussing post-war US literature
                  G
With a girl whose upper arm read "fiction"
        Am              C   G
Like it might have been typewritten

Cmaj7    G  x2

  Cmaj7
I asked her its significance
             G
She said she sometimes took reminding
         Cmaj7
What she wanted to be doing
        G
Whether reading it or writing
  Cmaj7
I admitted admiration
         G
For both typeface and intent
              Cmaj7
And said more softly - sotto voce -
       G
I knew too well what she meant
         Am               C         G
She just smiled, And in a while she went

Dm           Am                G
For a time I forgot this ever took place
                                    
She left her bottle on the bookcase

Cmaj7    G  x6

            Cmaj7
So though I leave you little option
       G
But to take me at my word
  Cmaj7
I assure you, dearest listener
        G
That it happened as you've heard
  Cmaj7
A beer left on a bookshelf
     G
At a bygone barbecue
     Cmaj7
By a girl from Kansas City
        G
With my favourite tattoo
   Am          C      G
Oh why would I lie to you?
   Am          C      G
Oh why would I lie to you?
   Am          C      G
Oh why would I lie?