Key: D
Introduction:
D G C G D C G D
Verse
C G D
Come and stay with me as long as you like
G C
I live outside of town where the straight highway curves
D C G D
Three years I lived nextdoor to the airport
G A
So nothing you can say to me can get on my nerves
Em A D G
Stay 'till you feel your legs underneath you again
C D
I've got room in my house for you
C G
I've got a Kenmore single-room window unit air conditioner
D G C
It cools down the place in the full heat of day
D C G
A family of possums have made a home underneath the front steps
D G A
They are majestic in their own beady-eyed homely way
E A D G
Stay 'till you can breathe like normal people do
C D
I've got room in my house for you
Am G D Dm
They tore down the airport in 1981
Am G A
This is where I came when I ran out of places to run
D
Come, come
C G D
Come and stay with me out here away from things
G C
Come and stay with me where the sky's real clear
D C G
I live way out where no one believes anybody could live
D C G
Sky's purple from six in the evening 'till midnight out here
A D G
Stay 'till the world goes down in flames
C D
I've got room, room in my house for you
Outro