Film Noir from Dogfish Troop by Dogfish Troop

Film Noir – Clark Gormley 1/10/18
Capot III for Clark’s voice
Intro D
G
it’s the chance of a lifetime
F
a crack at the top job
A
there’s only one scumbag
D
who stands in the way

G
just a lethal encounter
F
by chance one evening
A
and that putrefaction
D
is tidied away

E A5
it’s a chance in a million
G
with studied precision
F
and cool composition
E F#
you’ll ever be caught
but
D C
there’s a chance that arrangements
F7
no matter how well they’re
E7 G
designed and rehearsed won’t
Bb D (D6)
turn out as they ought


in the dead of the evening
when frogmouths are feeding
and frogs may be breeding
but no one’s around

In the derelict backwoods
you can be dead sure
that only the fauna
hear them make a sound

but they’re dead set unlikely
to call for a doctor
or hail a police car
when they have no pulse
at all

it’s the dead who tell no tales
don’t update their status
and they never answer
when you try to call


With his line of enquiry
you’ve been asked to assist
the pesky policeman
who stands at your door

it’s the line up with other
unusual suspects
where unfortunately
you stand out somewhat

It’s the end of the line now
the words about justice
and reckoning have
already been said

it’s that line about murder
and one being too many
you can’t stop from chanting
around in your head

• Folk
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