Touch of Evil Tom Russell
Touch Of Evil
Tom Russell
Key A, capo 2nd fret
The C/G is optional on the 3rd verse, Tom stays on G on some lines.)
Intro: G C/G x2
The [G]night my baby left me I [C]crossed the bridge to Juarez a[G]venu[C/G]e
[C]Like that [G]movie "Touch of evil" I got the [C]Orson Wells, Marlene Dietrich [G]blues
[C]Where Orson [G]walks in to the w***e house and
[C]Marlene says "Man, you look like [G]hel[C/G]l"
And Orson's [G]chewing on a chocolate bar
as the l[C/G]ights go on in the old Blue Star hotel
"Read my [C]future" says old Orson, "down inside the tea leaves of your [Bm]cup"
And she says "[Am]You ain't got no future, Hank,
[C]I believe your f[D]uture's all used [G]up"
Why don't you [C]touch me anymore? Why don't you [G]touch me anymore?
Why do you [D]run away and hide? You know it [G]hurts me deep inside[(G7)]
Why do you [C]close the bedroom door? This is a [G]brutal little war
What good is [D]all this fightin' for if you don't [C]touch me any[G]more?
[G] [C/G]
(Chords like 1st verse, until notice)
They [G]shot "A touch of evil" in a [C]Venice, California colo[G]ny[C/G]
[C]And I grew near [G]those dead can*ls
where they filmed the [C]longest pan shot ever [G]made
[C]Now I'm thinking a[G]bout the movie, the [C]bar I'm in, the bridge, the Rio [G]Grande[C/G]
Now I'm t[G]hinking about my baby and the [C/G]borderline 'tween a woman and a man
I was d[C]runk as Orson Wells the night I crawled backwards out the [Bm]door
I was [Am]screaming "Baby, baby [C]how come you [D]touch me any[G]more?"
CHORUS:
G C/G x3
(Chords like 2nd verse)
Oh, some[G]one rolled the credits on [C]twenty years of love turned dark and [G]raw[C/G]
Not a [C]technicolor l[G]ove film, it's a [C]brutal document, it's film [G]noir
And it's [C]all played out on a [G]borderline and the [C]actors are tragically mis[G]cas[C/G]t
Like a Mexican bur[G]lesk show where the [C/G]characters are wearing comic masks
Oh, it's [C]love and love alone I cry to the barmen in this Juarez water[Bm]hole
As we raise a [Am]glass to Orson and [C]"A touch of evil" [D]livin' our [G]souls
CHORUS:
Outro: G C/G x3 G (Stop)
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