Accident On 3rd Street Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[D]Linda was killed last Saturday
about fifteen blocks from where she lives
In a [G]car crash, people gathered around the graveside
friends and relatives dressed in [D]black
Preacher mumblin' how she's
bound to go to Heaven
The ser[G]vice started at half- past ten,
it was all over by eleven
They say [D]it's God's to give,
and [A]God's to take away,
But why [Bm]He happened to pick Linda on a Saturday [G]night,
no one could say.
[A]Maybe it's just one[D] of those thi[G]ngs
One [D]of those things

[Verse 2]
They [D]found guy the who did it,
he had the lobotomy and the chicken eyes,
And he [G]gazed around the courtroom
with a kind of vague surprise
Re[D]minded me of one of those Vikings
with the long- handled swords
The kind of guy [G]even Joan Baez
would not feel non- violent towards
[D]Said he wasn't looking,
maybe he had [A]had a bit too much
It was [Bm]dark, it was raining,
he didn't see the [G]light or some such
[A]It was just one of [D]those thi[G]ngs,
One [D]of those things.

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 3]
I asked [D]my local guru the situation
and he gave me this reply
While point[G]ing a bony finger up into
the general direction of the [D]sky:
"Get on with your own life,
it is not ours to reason why"
Said he used to [G]worry about it
once when he was young
Now he doesn't even bother to try
[D]He left me with a feeling that what
he said [A]was basically sound
Like a [Bm]black hole in space, or philosophy,
[G]useless but pro[A]found
Just [D]one of those [G]things,
One [D]of those things.

[Verse 4]
[D]Tonight I'm gonna take myself
down to my local cafe
Gonna get [G]smashed out of my mind,
gonna waste myself away
[D]Gonna drink and drink and sink
into that dark abyss
I wanna [G]be just like that Viking,
I wanna know if ignorance is truly bliss.
[D]Linda's in the cold ground,
won't [A]see her anymore
[Bbdim]Somewhere [Bm]out on the highway tonight,
[G]the drunken [A]engines roar
It's just [D]one of those [G]things,
One [D]of those things.

[Interlude 2]
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[Verse 5]
[G]Oh, just [D]one of those things.

[Outro 1]
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