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