| Bb | |
| My baby never was a cheatin' kind |
| F7 | |
| But It w | asn't cause the ladies didn't try |
| Now ev'ry where we go, they're walkin' 'round him slow, |
| Bb | |
| G | ivin' him a flutter and a sigh |
| Bb | |
| Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta |
| Bb7 | Eb | |
| L | ord, | I walked all over that blackeyed cajun queen. |
| F7 | |
| B | ut outside of Amarillo, he found his thrill I tell you |
| Bb | |
| I lo | st him to a jukebox and a pinball machine |
| Eb | Bb | |
| Oh, A | marillo what'd you want my baby for |
| Eb | C7 | F7 | |
| Oh, A | marillo now h | e won't come home no more. |
| Eb | Bb | |
| You | done played a trick on me, hooked him in the first degree, |
| F7 | |
| Put in another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter, |
| Bb | |
| W | hile he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine. |
| Solo |
| Bb | |
| If you only hadn't stopped in ????? |
| F7 | |
| If someone hadn't played the window up | above |
| Oh, he'd still be mine today, |
| But he heard those fiddles play, |
| Bb | |
| One look and then I knew this must be | love. |
| Bb | |
| Oh, that pinball machines in the corner, |
| Eb | |
| But he saw the lights and he had to hear 'em | ring. |
| F7 | |
| And he | never was the same after he won his first free game, |
| F | Bb | |
| oh, I lost him to the jukebox and a pinball | machine. |
| Eb | Bb | |
| Oh, A | marillo what'd you want my baby for |
| Eb | C7 | F7 | |
| Oh, A | marillo now h | e won't come home no more. |
| Eb | Bb | |
| You | done played a trick on me, hooked him in the first degree, |
| F7 | |
| Put in another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter, |
| Bb | |
| W | hile he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine. |
| Eb | Bb | |
| Oh, A | marillo what'd you want my baby for |
| Eb | C7 | F7 | |
| Oh, A | marillo now h | e won't come home no more. |
| Eb | Bb | |
| You | done played a trick on me, hooked him in the first degree, |
| F7 | |
| Put in another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter, |
| Bb | |
| W | hile he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine. |
| From Emmylou Harris "Elite Hotel" |
| Reprise Records 1975 |
| Wait & See Music/Jolly Cheeks Music(BMI) |
| http://www.bmi.com/repertoire/title.html |
| AMARILLO BMI Work # 000033478 |
| Writers Current Affil. CAE # |
| CROWELL RODNEY J ASCAP 66912167 |
| SLOCUM EMMY LOU HARRIS ASCAP 55727269 |
| Publishers Current Affil. CAE # |
| IRVING MUSIC INC BMI 39860945 |
| JOLLY CHEEKS MUSIC BMI 61033326 |
| WAIT AND SEE MUSIC BMI 87870036 |
| San Jacinto |