Fire On The Pontchartrain
By The Lost Trailers
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com
7/21/2005


    C                     F      C  
The cocaine bag, and your lovers numbers
C                          G 
Found in the bottom of our baby's crib
F          G        Am    C/B      F
I've never asked for what you have given
C                        G      C
And I can't take it for another day
C                     F      C
And if you say I've become a stranger
C                    G 
In this house that I built for you
F            G     Am   C/B  F
Then I would ask you to reconsider
C                           G       C    
Your rendezvous out on Lake Pontchartrain


Chorus:
G                    F              C            
I have been wronged and I have been mad
G                              F       C
I have planned violence in the face of love
Am         G        F            C 
I tore the wires, and left them tattered
G                                                C
I swear the both of you won't make it back, Hey, Hey


I never knew why men would turn to violence
Then I met you and it came all too clear
The whiskey, whining, and constant lying
And the cheating in our very own bed

Chorus

So cheating men and cheating women
Don't deserve half of what they tore away
Just a brief float in my old johnboat
And blow them up upon the Pontchartrain

Chorus


G           F       C      Am                  
Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain
G              F      C                 Am  
I'll watch the rising flame, and make a toast
          G            F         C      Am
then I'll buy myself a brand new boat
G           F       C
Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)
Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)
Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)
Fire on the Pontchartrain


                 C Am                    G  F
Such a beautiful light, such a beautiful light
                 C Am                   G F
Such a beautiful life, such a beautiful life
                 C
Such a beautiful life


C
That night on the Pontchartrain
Am
I saw you leaving in the pouring rain
G
Turned my head and I count to ten
      F                                      C 
Now I want you back again, Such a beautiful life

C
That night on the Pontchartrain
Am
I saw you leaving in the pouring rain
G
I turned my head and I count to ten
      F
But I want you back again
                 C  Am                        G F 
It’s a beautiful light...for such a beautiful lie
                   C Am                    G F
It was a beautiful light, such a beautiful lie
                 C
Such a beautiful life